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防衛庁報道規制問題、アルジャジーラが特集 2004/01/17 02:00
【カイロ１６日田中祥彦】カタールの衛星テレビ局アルジャジーラは十六日、陸上自衛隊のイラク先遣隊の出発に関連して、防衛庁による報道自粛要請を「戦時の検閲を想起させる措置」として特集した。
アルジャジーラは、「情報の真偽を誰が判断するのか」「戦前の大本営発表にもつながりかねない」とする日本の専門家らの声を紹介しながら、報道規制の危険性に焦点をあてた。
自衛隊のイラク派遣は、「第二次世界大戦以来の日本の戦地への派兵」として、アラブ・中東諸国で驚きをもって迎えられており、中東で人気の高い同局は、小泉首相の単独インタビューを報道するなど、積極的に取り上げてきた。報道自粛要請問題の詳報には「平和国家」の変質に対する警戒感もうかがえる
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English Aljazeeraの当該記事です。
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/DFADDD8D-EE37-4AB0-924F-E514541DD03E.htm
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Japan media warned over Iraq mission
Friday 16 January 2004, 14:18 Makka Time, 11:18 GMT
Ahead of its most sensitive dispatch of troops abroad since World War II, the Japanese government has warned media not to "obstruct" its mission in Iraq or face a news blackout, a stance that has local critics fuming.
A letter to the media from the Defence Agency last week was labelled by critics as a reminder of Japan's wartime censorship, and an affront to the freedoms it pledged to help restore in war-battered Iraq.
"Japan's militant nationalism has gone, but the methods for controlling the Japanese media have remained," Teruo Ariyama, a journalism professor at Tokyo Keizai University, told AFP.
"The Japan Defence Agency will decide what information is safe or not and no one can inspect what the standard is," Ariyama said.
Humanitarian mission
On 9 December, after months of procrastination over the security situation in Iraq and concern over local and Asian sensitivities to sending troops overseas, Tokyo announced that up to 600 ground troops would be sent to the country on a humanitarian mission.
A military send-off with a guard of honour was held on Friday for an advance party of about 30 soldiers leaving later in the day for Kuwait before travelling overland to Iraq later in the month.
While their main task will be to supply clean water in Samawa,
southern Iraq, an area picked for its relative safety, it still
marks the first time since World War II that Japanese troops will enter a country where fighting is ongoing.
Requests
On Friday last week, the Defense agency sent all media outlets a request to refrain from reporting information that could "influence the security" of the troops, warning that if outlets "obstruct the completion of our mission", interview requests could be denied.
Among several specific requests, it asked for restraint in publishing the timing of the deployments, since many personnel would fly on commercial aircraft also used by civilians.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi told reporters the requests "just means that we want you to report while taking security issues into consideration."
Wartime propaganda
But analysts said the intention was just the opposite. "This is no different than the (wartime propaganda) 'Announcement from Imperial General Headquarters'," wrote Rikkyo University mass media professor Takaaki Hattori in the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper.
"The brazen, anachronistic attitude of the Defence Agency is nothing short of amazing," he wrote.
News outlets insisted they would exercise their own judgment as to what to report.
Publicly funded network Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) said it would continue to report developments on the ground "as they happen".
"It is the role of news organisations to answer the public's
right to know," it said in a statement to AFP. "Even if we take into consideration the safety of troops, we cannot accept the Defence Agency's request as it is."
Security tightened
Police beefed up security at major airports, train stations, as well as the US Embassy and other key facilities to guard against possible "terrorist attacks", a National Police Agency official said on condition of anonymity.
Japan has heightened its security vigilance after a purported al-Qaida operative warned last November that Tokyo would be targeted if Japan followed through with the dispatch plans.
Agencies
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