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Mayor who threatened to kill reporter tenders resignation

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The Daily Yomiuri a "biased" news organization? Unbelievable! Their 70-year support for the LDP, nuclear power and historical revisionism has always seemed the very essence of fair and balanced reporting to me.

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Good riddance. Anyone threatening the media should go. The morons in America can learn a lot from this resignation

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The Daily Yomiuri a "biased" news organization? Unbelievable! Their 70-year support for the LDP, nuclear power and historical revisionism has always seemed the very essence of fair and balanced reporting to me.

Exactly. I used to read the daily yomiuri when I first got to Japan, then stopped because it was just too extreme for me.

The mayor admitted his remark amounted to "verbal abuse" after the daily lodged a protest, but he still called the reporter "a pervert" for entering his private property when visiting his home.

how do you NOT enter someone's private property when visiting their home? I thought both were the same thing..

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I used to read the daily yomiuri when I first got to Japan, then stopped because it was just too extreme for me.

I can't think of any national newspaper that's not extreme (in the right wing sense), apart from Asahi Shimbun.

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Finally!

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Imagine if such things happened in the States! Half of the Trump administration would have been long gone.

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I can't think of any national newspaper that's not extreme (in the right wing sense), apart from Asahi Shimbun.

Fair enough. Point taken, but I still think Yomiuri is more right than most

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right wing, I mean

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Reporters shouldnt trespass, but also you shouldn't also threaten to kill people.

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He should receive more punishment than simply having to resign a few months early (and probably still receive a major package of cash).

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I can't think of any national newspaper that's not extreme (in the right wing sense)

Mainichi is not right-wing. Neither is the Nihon Keizai Shinbun. Both are national.

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