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Weblog Archive: August 3, 2008 to Aug 9, 2008 Friday, August 8, 2008
"Recently, we've had all these women who look like office workers turn up for interviews. Ask 'em what they do for work and, sure enough, they'll tell you they're in the insurance business. But they're good at looking after the customers, and we've taken plenty on," says the operator of a sex shop in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo's Toshima-ku. Hopefully more of these insights into Japanese culture and mores have been preserved. Wednesday, August 6, 2008
The articles had inappropriate content that should not have been dispatched in Japan or to the world, such as incorrect information about Japan and indecent sexual topics. We apologize deeply for making many people feel uncomfortable, damaging many people's reputations, causing great trouble and at the same time, betraying the public's trust in the Mainichi Shimbun. We are deeply sorry. Publishing articles that a few people found offensive was not betraying the public's trust. Shutting down the site because a few people found its content offensive is a profound betrayal of the public trust. So what caused the self-censorship and lawyerly ass-covering? Japundit covered the shutdown in late June — "Why, oh Wai Wai" — and took partial credit. Seems that a few months earlier, Japundit had summarized an especially outlandish Wai Wai article, itself a summary of some Japanese tabloid article, offering advice to older men patronizing schoolgirl prostitutes. A Japanese news site linked to the Japundit piece and harrumphed about Wai Wai promoting negative stereotypes about Japan to its overseas readers. Mainichi eventually shut down its entire English-language news site and announced: We have decided to reform the MDN in order to rehabilitate it into a site that can dispatch information to the world that can help people properly understand Japan. We will appoint a female employee as the new chief editor, based on our realization that the lack of a woman's point of view, in addition to the lack of a checking system, helped to create a situation in which inappropriate articles continued to be published in the column. What sexist tripe! No female writer would ever stoop to raunch and sensationalism? Only a female editor can be trusted to publish something so bland and inoffensive that no one will ever bother to read it? The president of Harvard got fired for spouting similar nonsense, but sadly such unfounded prejudices persist. Here's hoping some bilingual entrepreneur starts an independent website filling the Wai Wai niche. Until then, here are some gloriously inappropriate blasts from the past (the actual mainichi.co.jp links in these posts will all be dead, of course): Wine bath for the nads, mud pack for the sack
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