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FREE SPEECH

Palestinian mourners carry the body of Al Jazeera journalist Ahmed Wishah, killed in an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on June 21.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 29, 2026
When killing the messenger becomes a strategy of war
Record journalist deaths in Gaza raise urgent questions about war, accountability and the targeting of reporters.
The BBC faces a potential $5 billion lawsuit from Donald Trump over a misleading Jan. 6 documentary clip, but legal action is risky, costly, and could threaten the broadcaster¡¯s survival despite its apology.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 18, 2025
The BBC is gambling with its own destruction over Trump scandal
The Beeb is too important and Trump¡¯s rancor too extreme and unpredictable to pursue chancy legal warfare.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg attends a private dinner for technology and business leaders hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Sept. 4.
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Oct 1, 2025
Trump and America¡¯s tech giants: Coexistence or collaboration?
The impact of Trump¡¯s policies on online platforms is also significant. During his first term, Big Tech faced intense antitrust pressure.
Elon Musk¡¯s recent decision to demonetize far-right critics on X has sparked confusion about free speech on social media, with both sides misinterpreting the platform¡¯s role in content distribution and monetization.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 7, 2025
Musk and his critics are both wrong about free speech on X
Neither side is using the concept in a constitutionally accurate way.
Fahmi Fadzil
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 8, 2024
Malaysia shelves web traffic re-routing plan after censorship concerns
The directive, which was supposed to take effect on Sept. 30, had sparked concerns about increasing online censorship and potential damage to Malaysia¡¯s digital economy.
Demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on March 18 as justices hear arguments on whether the government has the right to encourage social media companies to remove content it deems misinformation.?
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 19, 2024
It¡¯s just fine if public officials block you on social media
The U.S. Supreme Court¡¯s decision should reduce the frequency of litigation over social-media blocking. But it won¡¯t eliminate it altogether.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 11, 2022
Russia¡¯s independent journalists need help
Even before the war, committing journalism in Putin¡¯s regime had become a hazardous task.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 30, 2022
American book-banning tradition is as old as the Mayflower
One activist said, ¡®Why is everyone so upset? Controlling what children read is entirely different from controlling what adults read.¡±
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 27, 2021
Harvard¡¯s conservatives shouldn¡¯t have to hide behind pseudonyms
Fearing the wrath of cancel culture, conservative writers at Harvard are reluctant put their names on student publications.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
May 29, 2021
Florida¡¯s new social media law violates the first amendment
The key provision of the Florida law states that ¡®a social media platform may not willfully deplatform a candidate for office¡± ¡ª and imposes a $250,000 per day fine for violations.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 25, 2019
U.S. Supreme Court allows foul language trademarks in F-word case
The Supreme Court on Monday struck down a long-standing U.S. ban on trademarks on ¡°immoral¡± or ¡°scandalous¡± words and symbols, ruling in a case involving a clothing brand with an indelicate name that the law violates constitutional free speech rights.
COMMENTARY / World
May 22, 2018
Battling campus oppression of the freedom of expression
¡®Bias response teams¡¯ are squelching liberty of speech at American universities.
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2018
Conservatives can¡¯t force YouTube to be free-speech zone: California judge
A producer of online civics lessons with a conservative bent got schooled by a federal judge on why it¡¯s hard to sue Google for censorship.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 22, 2018
What to do when liberals are the censors?
¡®Offense¡¯ and ¡®hurt¡¯ are central concepts in rising efforts on the left to curtail free speech.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 27, 2017
Football players who protest racism have right to free speech but not to disrespect nation: Jeff Sessions
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday denounced football players who have protested racism by kneeling or locking arms during the playing of the national anthem before games, saying that even though their speech is protected, they should be condemned for showing disrespect to the country.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 19, 2017
Americans feared Trump, but normalized leftist violence
The cost of preventing thieves from stealing American¡¯s constitutionally guaranteed freedoms is growing increasingly high.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 15, 2017
After Charlottesville: If you fire a fascist, you are a fascist
It¡¯s time to overthrow the millions of little Hitlers who think that issuing a paycheck turns their employees into slaves subject to thought control.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jun 13, 2017
Why Japan¡¯s poor media grade matters
Japan has a media problem, and it¡¯s holding back the economy and undermining Abe¡¯s goal of raising Tokyo¡¯s global status.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 2, 2017
Teachers have fewer rights than students
A recent Tokyo High Court decsion unwittingly affirmed that students possess more free speech rights than teachers.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 31, 2017
U.N. experts see ¡®alarming, undemocratic¡¯ U.S. trend against free speech, protest
Nineteen U.S. states have introduced bills that would curb freedom of expression and the right to protest since Donald Trump¡¯s election as president, an ¡°alarming and undemocratic¡± trend, U.N. human rights investigators said on Thursday.
Japan weighs regulating Pokemon cards amid trading mania
A Pokemon event is held in Jakarta on July 11
Japan to set up expert working group on accepting foreign nationals
Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara (second from left) addresses a meeting of ministers responsible for policies concerning foreign residents, held at the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Head of Swiss euthanasia firm dies after collapsing while ascending Mount Fuji
Around 200,000 people typically scale the 3,776 meter Mount Fuji each year.
Indian brothers make manga debut in Japan
Two Indian brothers made their manga debut in Japan with "Kung Fu Kung Fool" ¡ª an action-comedy series that follows the adventures of a notorious thief and a young boy.
Japan scientists identify clusters of protein believed to trigger Alzheimer¡¯s disease
A team of researchers said they found a ¡°seed¡± that accelerates the amyloid beta accumulation process in the brain, naming it ¡°Peak 1 amyloid beta,¡± as seen in a mouse's brain.
The sci-fi sensibilities of electronic trio Black Boboi
Black Boboi was formed in 2018 when solo artists Julia Shortreed, Utena Kobayashi and Ermhoi came together under Kobayashi¡¯s newly founded label, Bindividual.
A perfect storm: Kaze Fujii fans flock to Fuji Rock
Okayama-born singer-songwriter Kaze Fujii has carved out a distinctive place in Japanese pop since his major-label debut in 2019.
Can Japanese comedy get laughs in English? Yoshimoto Kogyo lets the jokes rip
Wes-P has millions of followers and his viral clips made him recognizable out of Japan.
The 180-day locals: Life on Japan¡¯s digital nomad visa
Christopher Flinn works remotely from Tokyo earlier this month. Japan issued 646 digital nomad visas in 2025, but tourism officials are hoping to increase that figure in the coming years, with Japan's relatively cheap cost of living and the weak yen seen as potential draws for young professionals.
Japan reveals hint of new defense spending target in fiscal blueprint
The Self-Defense Forces' Type 16 mobile combat vehicle fires during a joint live-fire drill with U.S. Marines as part of the annual Resolute Dragon exercises in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on June 28.

Podcast

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