Well it's not just the Japanese government that keeps secrets that it shouldn't:. LET THE SUN SHINE IN
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The American Society of Newspaper Editors and other media
organizations are organizing "Sunshine Week" in mid-March, to
encourage print, broadcast and online media outlets "to address the
issue of a more open government through news coverage, editorials,
commentaries, and editorial cartoons." The organizations are
"alarmed by a trend toward secrecy at all levels of government." A
similar effort, OpenTheGovernment.org, has been launched by dozens
of organizations "to advance the public's right to know and to
reduce secrecy in the government." The managing director of the PR
Consulting Group, which is promoting OpenTheGovernment.org, said,
"As Americans concerned about the erosion of our constitutionally
protected freedoms, this is a very important client for us."
SOURCE: PR Week (reg. req'd.), January 3, 2005
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