Japan climbed four positions from last year. The United States ranked 57th, down by two positions, and was second to last among the G7 countries.
Norway held the top position for the ninth consecutive year. Germany ranked 11th, the highest in the G7. Among other countries, South Korea placed 61st, Russia 171st, China 178th and North Korea 179th. Eritrea ranked 180th and was at the bottom of the 2025 rankings.
by SkyInJapan
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Unfortunately sounds about right. At least we’ll be past the US by 26… Small victories
Not sure how they come to those numbers but unfortunately these days “freedom of speech/media” is abused in the sense that we are flooded with fake news, and biased discourse coming from the media. The media are a complex machinery that are controlled by what people want to hear and sometimes by what politicians want to be said (and some times the opposite). Many news agencies work as mass gossiping platforms and other’s work as marketing agencies for governments and corporations.
Though I believe that lots of governments censor news against their regimes others are that might see false declarations being portrait there.
Only because it’s not the G8 anymore.
The amount of sane washing of foreign politics by the Japanese press is shameful. Just makes them look out of touch or wose, complicit.
In this survey they just ask a small group of biased journalists how satisfied they are with the current government, one of the factors is how much money the government gives to these journalists and whether the ideology of the current government is the same as that group of journalists, it is a biased survey that has no real criteria about press freedom, they also do not include internet freedom.
Japan and the USA probably have greater press freedom than any country in Europe.
Not surprised, keep hearing from my friends that the news is just getting worse and worse over there (used to live there back up until 2020). Sane washing LDP/Trump, suppressing local news, poor research/reporting.
Trust me when I say Japan are more free because they’re working a lot harder, too.
I still miss having Japanese news – became more informed on everything happening in the world by just translating pages that caught my eye than any media at home has had.
(from Ukraine to our own political stance to the perspective US is leaving on the world). And the fact is you can’t access it here. And media tells us squat, just scraping our data to sell.
– disgruntled US citizen