Education
Uesugi graduated from the Department of English Literature at Tsuru University.
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Takashi Uesugi
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He is also former aide to Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Kunio Hatoyama, and author of numerous books, most recently The Collapse of Journalism (ジャーナリズム崩壊). He also wrote a book about the first Abe administration, Kantei Hokai (官邸崩壊), published in August 2007. He claims he got an offer letter from Japan"s national broadcasting company Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai. He, however, failed to graduate college.
Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai withdrew the employment offer.
He also said Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai had hired him, and worked as a reviewer for Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai in the other opportunity. Uesugi wrote Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai protested that he had never worked for Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai in his blog.
From age 26, he claims to have worked for 5 years as a secretary for Kunio Hatoyama before quitting this job to become an intern for the Tokyo branch office of the New York Times for three months. He is one of the loudest critics in Japan of Tokyo Electric Power Company"s handling of the Fukushima I nuclear accidents.
In March 2012, he fabricated a story in the daily paper Yukan Fuji that two cities in Fukushima had been deemed unlivable, based on fake Wall Street Journal journalists" comments.
Yukan Fuji retracted the article later that day and printed a correction in its following edition He refused to apologize for this. On Twitter, he is responsible for spreading a false rumor the Shintaro Ishihara was a stockholder in TEPCO and for starting the false rumor that Asahi Shinbun journalists were prohibited from using Twitter, which was ironically refuted by an Asahi journalist using Twitter.
Twitter users frequently criticize him for spreading false information.
Uesugi was a vociferous critic of Japan"s Kisha club system and the Japanese mass media. In October 2012, it was discovered that one of his books plagiarized mass media news articles
On October 15, 2012, he released the official statement to replace his past words: "Japanese mainstream media had never reported it in March and April after Japan earthquake 2011." into "A part of Japanese mainstream media reported lieutenant However, they didn"t keep readers and audiences well-updated." retroactively.
He is also extremely critical of Wikipedia.
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Liberal Democratic Party