Throwaway just in case.
Long story short, there is some shady business with a certain company in Tokyo employing a lot of foreign nationals. As one of their former employees, myself and a few colleagues are in the middle of a lawsuit against management.
Our lawyers wanted to spread word about the company’s practices and held a press conference (along with a press release) about the suit. Six or seven media outlets attended, but there are no Japanese nationals currently involved in the suit itself, so no articles were written.
I’m thinking people should know about this before anyone else’s livelihood is destroyed by joining this company, so maybe an English-language or foreigner-oriented site/newspaper would be the best way to go. If anyone has advice or knows a good journalist it would be appreciated. Thanks!
Edit: Looks like AutoMod is hiding my replies. Sorry!
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Name and shame the company bro!
Link the press release
UnseenJapan might be interested.
If it’s already intended to be public then just link it.
Name and shame please
So you have multiple lawyers handling this, held a press conference, and published a press release, but you need to ask random internet strangers for journalism contacts? Something seems off about this…
Asian boss, search in youtube.
If it’s Dentsu again…
Wait is this Rakuten mobile 😂
It’s gotta be Rakuten lol! Famous for employing foreigners and famous for cut throat like policies.
which company is this
Jake Adelstein? Used to follow him when I was on twitter. Seemed like a decent human being.
N&S, OP. N&S.
You could try emailing Rare Earth about this? I mean it wouldn’t hurt to try
If it’s a press release. At least upload it to somewhere so people can read it.
Bloomberg, NYT, WSJ, etc. journalists in Japan are active on LinkedIn and Twitter. If this is legit, you should have no difficulty reaching them.
Mods: time to cut this one off if it is just a game of hide and seek? Nothing of interest here if. Press release is already out and the plaintiffs and defendants have been named already.
Start with JapanToday maybe? They are owned by GaijinPot. Or Japantimes?
Your not suing that other guy and threatening to take his visa, right?
What’s that English language Japan online newspaper I see all the time? Probably them?
Did you get the contacts of the “six or seven media outlets” that attended your press conference? Maybe they just haven’t quite got round to it rather than just ignoring it. If they actually just didn’t care cause it was gaijin they wouldn’t have attended in the first place, surely?
I dunno, maybe you’re right and they’re being racist, Japan is good at making people paranoid seemingly justifiably, but until you find that out I would keep doing press conferences when you have an excuse and let the local kisha clubs know well in advance beforehand. 100% include the FCCJ in this too if you’re worried about the foreign angle stopping people from covering it.
according to the Press Freedom Index (you can check on wikipedia) Japan press freedom is bullshit everything is controlled by goverment, Japan is in the “Yellow Zone” below Haiti and Kenya, that should mean something.
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” The Japanese government and businesses routinely apply pressure on the management of mainstream media, which results in heavy self-censorship on topics that could be deemed sensitive, such as corruption, sexual harassment, health issues (Covid-19, radiation), or pollution. In 2020, the government dramatically reduced the number of journalists invited to its press conferences, using Covid-19 health measures as an excuse, and included public broadcaster NHK on the list of organisations supposed to follow its “instructions” in the case of a major national crisis. ”
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Source: Reporters without borders