Talk:Japan Today

Criticisms section

I am the founder of Japan Today and although I no longer own it and am not involved in the management I would rather not get accused of a conflict of interest.

This article is obviously written by a disgruntled Japan Today message board member and does not conform to standard Wikipedia policies. The entire "criticisms" section should be deleted for NPOV, Original research and Reliable Source violations. While the author may believe that JT promotes "yellow journalism", "anti-youth" reporting etc unless there is a reliable THIRD PARTY source for those claims their own personal opinions and even those of groups of Japan Today users have no place on Wikipedia. -- Sparkzilla talk! 13:59, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Yes, agree. I have no involvement whatsoever with the subject, and it is clearly full of negative POV. Onanoff (talk) 20:10, 4 June 2013 (UTC)

---I am removing that section and editing all the various errors and overtly opinionated parts of the first paragraph. It is clear that it does not meet Wikipedia standards. If somebody wants to do the background work needed to write a revised neutral "Criticisms" section, I give The New York Times Coverage section as an example. Sushilover2000 (talk) 21:08, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

---Removing the section to avoid Criticism is agaist WIKIPEDIA's ethics and integrity. If you do it for Japan Speak then you MUST do it for Facebook, Amazon and all the other companies. We will inform the BBC, the CNN and Japanese Press to report this happening. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teomotto (talk • contribs) 04:26, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

I would not call the source used for the "criticism" section reliable. This is the source used, from "onewayjapan". The English is terrible, and the writer suggests that Wikipedia is engaged in a coverup to hide criticism of Japan Today. I look at their "about us" link and I'm even more convinced. The site was founded only earlier this year, and seems to rely on volunteer writers. I quote from their page:

We have decided to give you ONLY the coolest most important news, about LIVING, GOVERNATIVE and TOURISTIC informations you might find hard to find somewhere else.

OWJ is run, written and edited entirely by volunteers from all around the world with one Passion in common, JAPAN!!!

OWJ publishes ONLY original contents. It offers Pictures and Videos to enrich all the contents and gives a space featuring comment functions to provide news and discussions on all issues.

OWJ is the FIRST online WEBSITE that offers a detailed picture of Japan, its Culture, Languages and genaral information that can help Foreigners and Travellers to live Japan with all the information they might need.

We protect freedom of speech by giving anyone interested in journalism the chance to publish Analysis and Special Reports.

We proudly offer better information, more than any other website have ever tried to do.

Yeah, that doesn't inspire much confidence for me. I think it would be irresponsible to assume any of their writers are actual journalists. Someguy1221 (talk) 05:00, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

Thanks! Sushilover2000 (talk) 00:18, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

It's ironic that the 'founder' one Mark Devlin, was trying to justify the site as truthful, given that Mr.Devlin himself was often found on the wrong side of the law in Japan. Whenever the info is edited, there are numerous bots that are reverting any additional text to the original and therefore it is now impossible to write anything truthful about this site or the company that now owns it. I guess this will have to be left to bloggers and chat rooms to do, but impact will be negligible. As for Mr.Devlin, it pays to know who you can trust in your circle of friends and former staff/volunteers, especially when you treat them like crap.