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Article: Journalism in the service of war authority: Reporter recalls being torn between team player ethos, troubling events.
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- Japan Times (Tokyo, Japan)
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- August 17, 2007
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Byline: Setsuko Kamiya
Aug. 17--Third in a series
Kanji Murakami began his reporting career in January 1941, joining the Asahi Shimbun's bureau in Seoul, or Keijo as it was then known, when the Korean Peninsula was under Japanese colonial rule.
At that time media censorship was strong. A 1909 law imposed many restrictions and curbed freedom of speech. Every newspaper was loyal to the Imperial government, which urged the nation to sacrifice for victory.
Murakami was assigned to cover day-to-day business at the Government-General of Korea, the Imperial government's headquarters for the peninsula. Now 92, Murakami recalled that reporters ...