Claim
Claim 910
Officials concluded the high approval figure reflected editors submitting only material they believed would pass, rather than official leniency.
- Statement
- Officials concluded the high approval figure reflected editors submitting only material they believed would pass, rather than official leniency.
- Field
- effect_on_reporting
- Value
- High approval reflected editors submitting only safe material
- Publisher
- War & Media in Modern Japan
- Method
- outlet report
- Checked
- 2026-09-26
- Confidence
- medium
- Status
- current
- Source date
- 2021
Quotation from the source
An alarming statistic for the Home Ministry that was quickly explained as resulting from newspaper editors only submitting articles they believed would pass