Foundations

• The Japanese Media System, In Outline — Five conglomerates, one public broadcaster, two wire services, and a press-club system that gates access; the structural facts the rest of the bundle rests on. status: draft
• The Kisha Club System — The reporters' clubs that restrict press conferences to members, exclude freelancers and foreign press, and produce uniform reporting through blackboard agreements and note-swapping. status: draft
• Broadcast Act Articles 3 and 4 — The 1950 law's two competing clauses — freedom from state interference vs "political fairness" — and how public argument migrated from the first to the second. status: draft
• Press-Freedom Baseline — Where Japan sits on the RSF index, what the UN rapporteur found, and why the low score coexists with almost no violence against journalists. status: draft

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