"1. Write the truth by any means possible. 2. Protect your sources. 3. If you can't write the story, without protecting your sources, find new or different sources or drop the story. There's always another news story, people only have one life. That's Japanese Journalism Ethics 101"--senior national news editor, 1999 Recently, Japan's largest newspaper, the Yomiuri Shinbun, forced a national news reporter to resign after he mistakenly sent an email which revealed the identity of his police contact. The police officer had been a whistle blower on yakuza (organized crime) links between the Fukuoka Police. The detective who was compromised later tried to kill himself.
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