The risky way of news gathering activity.
Secondly, the news gathering activity she took would be controversial. After she became in charge of Minister of Finance a year ago, the vice-minister often invited her to have meal together in private. You would sense the man’s secret intention and actually he has not hesitated to tell her the offensive words, without knowing his bad reputation was spreading among journalists. It seems strange that a young lady had to attend lunch or dinner in such one-to-one situation. In Japanese society, however, it has been acceptable for a journalist to have close relationship with a person for his/her news gathering activity. To get scoop, they looked for every opportunity to approach to high officials. The sexual harassment scandal, tells us such risky way of news gathering activity has to be considered. By the way, it is banned in US.
(To be continued)
