Expelled Japanese journalist senses China's rising repression

Former correspondent compares his expulsion 22 years ago with those of WSJ reporters

KENJI KAWASE, Nikkei Asian Review chief business news correspondent

OSAKA -- For Yukihisa Nakatsu, former Beijing correspondent for Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, when he heard about the expulsion last month of three Wall Street Journal reporters based in the country's capital, it was a case of the same old-fashioned repression of foreign media by the Chinese government.

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