Japan Fact-checks: Citing Only Convenient Data
Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.
Inaccurate: Japanese government to subsidize half of travel expenses for foreign tourists
Fact-check by INFACT
Misleading: Finance Minister Taro Aso’s: Japan’s “fewer deaths than the West are due to the difference in the social standards”
Fact-check by INFACT
FIJ debuts on the nippon.com website
FactCheck Initiative Japan (FIJ) is providing articles to the nippon.com website as of July 3rd. The nippon.co…
Mr. Daisuke Furuta is appointed to the FIJ Board of Directors
Daisuke Furuta, a former newspaper reporter and digital journalist with extensive knowledge of domestic and in…
Japan Fact-checks: Be aware of information taken out of context
Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.
False: Japan’ s Supreme Court rules ‘welfare for foreigners illegal’
Fact-check by INFACT
Japan Fact-checks: Beware of medical statements without evidence
Weekly Fact-checks report by FIJ English team.
Fabrication: CNN doctored a photo of a man who fired shots into Black Lives Matter protests to make him look white
Fact-check by INFACT
False: PCR test also detects common cold viruses
Fact-check by INFACT
