Asahi.com is one of the most popular newspaper company in Japan. The company tries to pick up many issues of discrimination and supports the human right within Japan, especially for people from a particular country in Asia. But an employee of this company wrote many discriminational comment on the anonymous communication board site, called 2 channel.
Title: Asahi News punished strictly its writing editor for posting discriminational comments.
Asahi News commented on March 31, that it punished its editor for writing inappropriate comments on 2ch from the company's computer.
The regulated comment from ".asahi-np.co.jp"
According to the company, this employee, unknown name, 49 years old male editor for final drafts, wrote many discriminational comments which offend against ethnical discriminated and mental disabled people on the anonymous communication site board, called 2ch, by using company's IP address between February and March. Control management department of 2ch regulated any Asahi News' IP address to write any comment on the website because of its inappropriate actions, and meaningless posts and comments.
At the night on March 30th, after someone out of the company pointed out Asahi News about the circumstance, the company found out the doer who made the issue. The employee said, "I was escalated to write emotionally while I commented with other posters. I accept what I made was immoral."
The company commented, "We have to apologize that one of our employee made the inappropriate comments on 2ch. We'll give him a strict punishment as soon as we find clearly out the circumstance which he made."
朝日新聞編集局員が2chで荒らし 差別表現投稿で「厳正処分」
Title: Asahi News punished strictly its writing editor for posting discriminational comments.
Asahi News commented on March 31, that it punished its editor for writing inappropriate comments on 2ch from the company's computer.
The regulated comment from ".asahi-np.co.jp"
According to the company, this employee, unknown name, 49 years old male editor for final drafts, wrote many discriminational comments which offend against ethnical discriminated and mental disabled people on the anonymous communication site board, called 2ch, by using company's IP address between February and March. Control management department of 2ch regulated any Asahi News' IP address to write any comment on the website because of its inappropriate actions, and meaningless posts and comments.
At the night on March 30th, after someone out of the company pointed out Asahi News about the circumstance, the company found out the doer who made the issue. The employee said, "I was escalated to write emotionally while I commented with other posters. I accept what I made was immoral."
The company commented, "We have to apologize that one of our employee made the inappropriate comments on 2ch. We'll give him a strict punishment as soon as we find clearly out the circumstance which he made."
朝日新聞編集局員が2chで荒らし 差別表現投稿で「厳正処分」
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