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Check it out. This is a quick plug giving credit to one journalist's long-suffering effort to bring a progressive voice to the Japanese news ecosystem.

Michael Penn (マイケル・ペン), the founder of Shingetsu News (新月ニュース) is a mission driven journalist standing up in the land of hammered down nails. When he isn't covering Japan on Al-Jazeera he's pumping out all the best political dirt in Japan, and making it available in English.

With very little financial support, Michael has kept this news outlet going for the last 8 years and built and maintained the online news agency to well over 400 articles.

Michael's Author Page

You Can't Get This News Anywhere Else, Not Like This and Not In English

From his 2011 open criticism of Ryu Matsumoto, "Minister in Charge of Reconstructing Areas Ravaged by the March 11 Earthquake and Tsunami" to this month's feature on Japan’s top uniformed military officer, Katsutoshi Kawano's lies, Michael gets the news and fearlessly reports it.

For expats in Japan

you'll find a quality news source unafraid to speak on the tough topics, the discussions that are mostly left in polite silence.

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News outlets in Japan tend to be insular, except when it comes to business news and world headlines from the G7

Shingestsu News Agency covers stories at the top of the societal pyramid but also tells and highlights worthy stories from the grassroots.

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