MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Kaye's warning remarks come after a week-long visit to Japan where he conducted a number of interviews with local journalists and government officials.
"A significant number of journalists I met feel intense pressure from the government, abetted by management, to conform their reporting to official policy preferences <…> Many claimed to have been sidelined or silenced following indirect pressure from leading politicians," Kaye said at a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club in Tokyo, as quoted by The Financial Times.
Concerns about press freedom in Japan have emerged as a number of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's appointments to key posts related to the mass media have been linked to a number of journalists known for making sensitive reports and asking tough questions leaving their jobs.
