Illitating japanese journalism

I think mass media in Japan have been making a huge blunder to cover the East Asian topics without slant for decades. They even didn't do a live of the Dalai Lama's press conference at last Thursday in the hotel near Narita Airport. Some TV station seemed to report blandly about the press conference on the evening news shows, but the public broadcaster NHK seemed to have almost neglected the press conference itself. I heard that a shameless reporter in a news show have expressed regret at the accommodation of the room the Dalai Lama stayed. I can't figure out the reason of such a sheer nonsense -- I've stopped watching TV at all.

General japanese newspapers also treat the press conference too lightly, in comparison with abroad papers such as New York Times and Herald Tribune. It seems that they just wrote their articles marely based on the short cover from Jiji Press.

I tried to translate the Jiji press's poor report about this press conference of the Dalai Lama. Words of the Dalai Lama are not his own English statements but translated from the japanese article by me.

The Dalai Lama, stopped over in Japan on his way to US, said "we shouldn't perpetrate violence," on the disturbance of the torch relay for the Beijing Olympics in cities such as London and Paris, and called for an end to the violence. He also said that he's still upholding the Olympics holding in China and he believes China is eligible host country, and emphasized he never changes his mind by the riots in Tibet.

Meanwhile, the Dalai Lama demanded the China's government to taka a pragmatic way of resolusion rather than the violent oppresion, saying "In China there occurs the same fray in the Hsinchiang Uighur autonomous region as in Tibet. It's time for China to accept the reality." He claimed more transparent information about the situation in Tibet and the necessity of building a 'society with harmony' based on the trust and the respect.

'Society with harmony' is the slogan of the President Hu Jintao too. It means the Dalai Lama made a demand of the slogan to be pervasive through Tibet.

At the same time, he condemned that the riot is just "the representation of indignations smoldering in Tibetan mind. It's not an independence movement." "We would be content with being under China in the diplomacy and the military. What we want is the autonomy in Buddism, culture, education, and so on." He refuted the idea of China that the Dalai Lama has planed the independence.

Again he called for research by the international authority for the revelation of the truth behind the riot.