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Freelance journalist Takashi Uesugi claims he has been blacklisted for exposing the secrets of Japan's big media and the press-club system.
A former aide to political LDP bigwig Kunio Hatoyama and researcher with The New York Times, Uesugi recorded his frustrations with reporting in Japan in his book The Collapse of Journalism (Gentosha, 2008). Here he talks exclusively to David McNeill and Number 1 Shimbun about the book and his experiences as a reporter.