Mainichi Shimbun apoligizes for what it shouldn't!

Wow, I was just trying to lay out the blog to continue our lovely tour (I will get to that on the next post) and I wanted to add the "Mainichi Shimbun" daily news because I always used to read it every day and enjoyed it a lot. One of the interesting sections was "WaiWai" which always had news on the sex industry in Japan, and apparently something in an article posted in that section made them shut down the site for now!

The Mainichi Newspapers Co., Ltd. continued to post extremely inappropriate articles in the WaiWai column of the Mainichi Daily News (MDN), its English Web site. We have reported the results of an in-house investigation into the case on Pages 22 and 23 of the July 20 morning edition of the Mainichi Shimbun.

We continued to post articles that contained incorrect information about Japan and indecent sexual content. These articles, many of which were not checked, should not have been dispatched to Japan or the world. We apologize deeply for causing many people trouble and for betraying the public's trust in the Mainichi Shimbun.

The Japanese site has the same message, but interestingly in both it is mentioned that the "English site" is the cause and not the Japanese one. Makes me wonder who actually initiated the complaint on the article! Now they are planning to be a more serious news-oriented site. I don't like the sound of that. We already have The Japan Times for a serious English language Japanese newspaper, and I never liked it.