Japan in blissful isolation from the rest of the world during the New Year

[yukio_michael]

In a free and democratic country, the government and media should be two clearly distinct things. So how comes that Japanese TV and newspapers try to "hide" what happens around the world ?

The dark side in me, the horrible pessimisstic side that feels lonely in Japan would say that it perserves the idea of the perfection of Japanese society, and the defect that exists as the exterior world.