Word: akiyama
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...Akiyama allegedly received $100,000 from Taiwan after his resignation from the Japanese defense ministry in 1997—money that the Sing Tao Daily of Hong Kong said he used to attend the Kennedy School of Government...
...Akiyama said in an e-mail yesterday that he had no involvement with Taiwan and that he came to Harvard simply to write about and promote military cooperation between Japan...
...Both [KSG] Dean Joseph Nye and Professor Ezra Vogel invited me to Harvard,” Akiyama wrote. “I didn’t get even a cent of money from Taiwan at all. I did [not]contact [the] Taiwan side at all. I don’t know how Harvard University raises money for academic activity in general...
Harvard sources also denied the newspapers’ charges against Akiyama yesterday...
...mainstream media either sanitizes or simply won't touch. "The Emperor is a war criminal. How is it that we haven't yet done away with the Imperial system?" asks an outspoken visitor to the history page. "In Japan, the press has had a monopoly over information," says Tomofumi Akiyama, a lawyer who specializes in multimedia law. "The Internet has opened the door for everyone to gather and transmit information...