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Shigeo Abe of FACTA: Justice and Corporate Japan

Date: Monday, June 25, 2012
Time: 7:00p.m. (Talk will start at 7:30p.m.)
Venue: Temple University, Japan Campus, Mita 502&503
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Speaker: Shigeo Abe, Editor-in-Chief, FACTA Weekly
Moderator: Robert Dujarric Director of ICAS
Admission: Free (Open to general public) RSVP:icas[at]tuj.temple.edu *If you RSVP you are automatically registered. If possible, we ask you to RSVP but we always welcome participants even you do not RSVP.

[Outline]

Justice does not always mean fairness in the democratic society. How can the media justify revealing corporate scandals in the grey zone where there is no guarantee that the police will investigate or that prosecutors will prosecute?

But justice, even in the case of democratic societies, is not the same as majority rule. In its role as the "Fourth Estate," the media can and should investigate corporate scandals that may not lead to criminal prosecution.
Investigative reporting is a type of "state of exception" that goes beyond what the government itself can investigate to give the public greater access to information.

[Speaker]

Shigeo Abe joined Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) in 1973 following graduation from Tokyo University. As a young reporter, he was assigned to the Lockheed
Affair. After serving in various departments, he
became an editorial staff
writer, focusing on the financial industry, and after the bubble burst, wrote the first page column “春秋 (Spring-Fall).” He was deputy chief correspondent of the European Bureau, based in London, in 1995-1998 and left Nikkei after a stint as editor in chief of Nikkei BP. He then went back to Europe, as visiting scholar at Cambridge University, where he conducted research on western military assistance to Iraq during the Iraq-Iran War and also on the question of WMDs.

>From 1999 to 2003 he was editor in chief of Sentaku
Magazine and in 2005 he
founded Facta Publishing Ltd. and FACTA Magazine was first published in 2006, bringing the Olympus scandal to light in 2011. FACTA
Magazine: http://eng.facta.co.jp/

While working at Nikkei, he received twice the Japan Newspaper Association Prize (category - project concept) for his 1990 and
1994 stories on "美の回廊
(Corridors of the beauty) and "官僚 (Public bureaucrat). His numerous publications include “The Creation of Iraq” and translations of P.K. Dick “We can build you” and “Dr. Bloodmoney.”

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Director
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