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Oona McGee
May 21, 2020
Poster outside Takeshita Street McDonald’s alerts viewers to fake news on Japanese television.
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Dale Roll
Sep 7, 2018
Despite the “fake news”, the Japanese are glad that it was not a sign of a deteriorating political relationship.
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