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An obscure communist newspaper is shaping Japan’s politics

Businessmen reading newspaper in Tokyo, Japan

2024-04-18    

What is perhaps surprising is that this political turmoil can be traced back to Shimbun Akahata (“Red Flag Newspaper”), a relatively niche newspaper run by the Japan Communist Party (JCP). It is read by 850,000 subscribers, down from a peak of around 3.5m in 1980. It first reported on the funding discrepancies in 2022. “I didn’t expect things would blow up,” says Sasagawa Kamiyu, the 33-year-old journalist who first reported on the scoop after scrutinising government documents. He worked with Kamiwaki Hiroshi, a law professor at Kobe Gakuin University, who filed a criminal complaint with prosecutors.

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