Mainichi Newspapers Waiwai Affairs - INDEX

INDEX What is the WaiWai issue? Astonishingly hideous newspaper articles published by one of Japanese quality papers on their English-language news site has infuriated many people. Some concerned people began online campaign to raise awareness of the issue, resulting in a large-scale protest movement. Mainichi Newspapers, one of Japan's four major quality newspapers, who has the 3rd largest readership, had published incredibly vulgar and indecent articles, many of which described Japanese women and girls as sexually promiscuous on the WaiWai corner of their English news site, Mainich Daily News. There were articles which gave tips for safe ways to buy under-age Japanese girls. There were also a report which described a traditional religious festival as having strangly strong sexual connotation. The problem is that these articles had been online for several years. The problematic articles have been already deleted -- Mainich N...
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