About Tokyo Dispatch

Tokyo Dispatch - Find breaking news for Japan in English. Read about business, politics, culture, local happenings & more at tokyodispatch.com.

What we publish

Tokyo Dispatch reports on Japan for readers outside it. Most stories begin as reporting published in Japanese by a Japanese outlet; we read the original, verify the details against it, and write the story in English with the context a non-Japanese reader needs.

How we credit

Attribution sits in the reporting itself — "…, the Asahi Shimbun reported", "in an interview with Bunshun". Public information such as court records, official statements and published statistics carries no attribution. Where a story was first broken elsewhere, we say so and name the outlet that broke it.

What we don't do

We do not invent quotes, we do not present a single source's framing as fact, and we do not publish photographs we cannot source. Every image is re-hosted after its metadata is removed.

Ownership

Tokyo Dispatch is independently published and funded by its readers. Editorial decisions are made by the editor, not by advertisers.