Okinawa papers rap Abe's fellow lawmakers over anti-media remarks

Okinawa papers rap Abe's fellow lawmakers over anti-media remarks

Kazuhiko Taketomi (L), editor-in-chief of the Okinawa Times, and Yoshikazu Shiohira, editor-in-chief of The Ryukyu Shimpo, speak at a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo on July 2, 2015. They also spoke at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan and rapped some lawmakers of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party for calling for pressure to be applied to media critical of the government, including the two Okinawa papers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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