[Los Angeles Times] Japan less likely to trust officials, main media, since disaster
Physicist Ryugo Hayano of Tokyo University tweeted about foreign news reports of radioactive fallout after the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown. His Twitter following soared to 150,000 from 3,000. (Tom Miyagawa Coulton, For The Times / December 17, 2011) http://www.twitter.com/hayano
For many older Japanese, the government remains a trusted, paternal overseer. But younger Japanese are now consulting the Internet and other information sources, rather than depending on major media.
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
December 18, 2011
Reporting from Tokyo—
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-japan-distrust-20111218,0,7635674.story
