ZT: Japan's Guiltiest Secret:
On issues that the authorities really want to sweep under the rug, the Japan Times and Kyodo are nothing if not co-operative. Besides the auto market issue, another key issue that has traditionally been censored in Tokyo is Japan’s stonewalling on compensation to war victims. In sharp contrast to Germany, Japan has paid virtually nothing to victims of its war crimes and their families – a fact that for decades was kept almost completely sub-rosa in the Western press. (Things have been liberalized somewhat in the last few years, now that most of the victims are dead.)