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Terrie’s Take on the Nikkei banning bloggers from linking to its site

April 17, 2010
By Ken Worsley


Over the past few years I have frequently linked to articles from both the Japanese and (more frequently) the English version of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun’s website (ie, the Nikkei). I’ve done this because I pay for a subscription and because the Nikkei is by far the best source of economic and businesses news on Japan. I also assumed linking to the Nikkei was sort of a way to ‘give back’ to them, as I knew full well that most people who followed my links would have to sign up and pay for access to the English version of the Nikkei. Have any paying subscribers been introduced to the Nikkei from this site? Of course, I have no idea, but it’s certainly not impossible.

So how does the Nikkei reward the bloggers and writers who are giving them free promotion and advertising? According to last Sunday’s edition of Terrie’s Take, Terrie Lloyd’s newsletter: Read more

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Ishihara: Tokyo to bid for 2020 Olympics

November 9, 2009
By Ken Worsley


Those who felt that Tokyo’s failed bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics was a colossal waste of $48 million are surely going to groan at today’s headline: Tokyo to bid for 2020 Summer Olympics: Gov Ishihara.

I wonder how this works now that the DPJ is in charge of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly. Do they have the power or desire to stand up to Ishihara?

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