Tokyo Reporter

Founded in 2008 by Brett Bull, a U.S. engineer working in Tokyo, the website translates or adapts reports by Japanese tabloid media about such topics as crime, sex and entertainment in Japan. The Washington Post described it as a "hybrid of the National Enquirer, the New York Post and Penthouse". The Post wrote that, because Japanese tabloids are less reliant on authorities for their content than Japanese mainstream media, and less concerned about the international reputation of the nation, Tokyo Reporter projects a less sanitized image of Japan to the outside world than the English language versions of mainstream media.{{cite news |last1=Fifield |first1=Anna |title=Japan's most salacious crime news — and the American who publishes it |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japans-most-salacious-crime-news--and-the-american-who-publishes-it/2016/04/21/150720b2-0740-11e6-bfed-ef65dff5970d_story.html |accessdate=24 April 2016 |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=23 April 2016}}

On January 26, 2022, the closure of TokyoReporter was formally announced.{{cite web | url=https://www.tokyoreporter.com/japan-news/thats-all-folks/ | title=That's All Folks | date=26 January 2022 }} Since March 20, 2023, news articles were being released again on the website,{{cite web | url=https://www.tokyoreporter.com/crime/model-jessica-michibata-accused-of-possessing-ecstasy/ | title=Model Jessica Michibata accused of possessing Ecstasy | date=20 March 2023 }} although at a lower frequency than before the closure period.

Brett Bull, a civil engineer for a Japanese construction company in Ōtsuka,{{cite news |last1=Wilks |first1=Jon |title=6 Tokyo Tweeters who kept the city informed |url=http://arch2015.timeout.jp/en/tokyo/feature/2594/6-Tokyo-Tweeters-who-kept-the-city-informed |access-date=14 April 2022 |work=Time Out Tokyo |date=18 March 2011 |language=en |quote=The Sendai earthquake hit at 2.46pm, March 11.}} an author{{Cite web | url=https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nb2010022356/ | title=Bull, Brett - Overview | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160919011558/https://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nb2010022356/ | archive-date=2016-09-19}} and a freelance journalist,{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Jamie |title=Social Media's Role as a Crucial Lifeline During Japan Disaster |url=https://mediashift.org/2011/04/social-medias-role-as-a-crucial-lifeline-during-japan-disaster103/ |access-date=14 April 2022 |work=MediaShift |publisher=Mark Glaser |date=13 April 2011 |language=en}} writes for Variety,{{cite news |title=Brett Bull (author) |url=https://variety.com/author/brett-bull/ |access-date=14 April 2022 |work=Variety}} Metropolis Japan Magazine,{{cite news |title=Sign of the Times |url=https://metropolisjapan.com/sign-of-the-times/ |access-date=14 April 2022 |work=Metropolis Japan Magazine |publisher=Japan Partnership Holdings Inc. |date=28 August 2008}} The New York Times,{{cite news |last1=Bull |first1=Brett |title=Japan Celebrates New Home Run King |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/sports/baseball/in-japan-a-new-home-run-king.html |access-date=14 April 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=15 September 2013}} Japan Today{{cite news |last1=Bull |first1=Brett |title=Last call for Kabukicho red-light district |url=https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/last-call-for-kabukicho-red-light-district |access-date=14 April 2022 |work=Japan Today |date=2008-12-22 |language=en}} The Japan Times,{{cite news |title=Brett Bull (author) |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/author/int-brett_bull/ |access-date=14 April 2022 |work=The Japan Times}} Loafer's Magazine,{{cite news |last1=Bull |first1=Brett |title=The King of Japanese Satellite Television Smut |url=https://mudvillemagazine.com/loafers/Brett.html |access-date=14 April 2022 |work=Loafer's Magazine |issue=14 |date=2005}} and others.{{cite news |last1=Bull |first1=Brett |title=The Gangster's Castle |url=https://www.japaninc.com/mgz_september_2008_property-rights-and-fraud-in-japan |access-date=14 April 2022 |work=Japan Inc. |publisher=Japan Inc Communications, Inc. |date=31 August 2008 |language=en |quote=The bizarre case of yakuza, property rights and fraud—scrabbling to make a fortune in Roppongi real estate}} From 17 November 1999 to 29 December 2007, he wrote as Captain Japan for his Sake-Drenched Postcards.{{cite web |title=Archives 1999 |url=https://www.bigempire.com/sake/archive1999.html |website=Sake-Drenched Postcards |via=bigempire.com |access-date=14 April 2022}}{{cite web |title=Archives 2007 |url=https://www.bigempire.com/sake/archive.html |website=Sake-Drenched Postcards |via=bigempire.com |access-date=14 April 2022}}

• {{cite book |last1=Bull |first1=Brett |last2=Kuroi |first2=Hiromitsu |title=More Secrets of the Ninja: Their Training, Tools and Techniques |date=2008 |publisher=DH Publishing Inc |location=Tokyo |isbn=978-1-932897-51-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n1heJafilrAC |language=en |quote=Tokyo publisher of Japanese pop culture books for the English speaking world.}}
• {{cite book |last1=Bull |first1=Brett |last2=Kuriyama |first2=Naohisa |title=Small house Tokyo : how the Japanese live well in small spaces. |date=2008 |publisher=Cocoro Books |location=Tokyo, Japan |isbn=9781932897456 |quote=Cocoro Books is an imprint of Tokyo-based DH Publishing}}
• {{cite book |last1=Bull |first1=Brett |last2=Janette |first2=Misha |last3=Clancy |first3=Judith |last4=Farris |first4=Jay |last5=Goss |first5=Rob |last6=Kitano |first6=Noriko |last7=Morel |first7=Robert |last8=Parker |first8=Emma |last9=Sasagawa |first9=Annamarie |last10=Wilson |first10=Chris |title=Fodor's Japan |date=2016 |publisher=Fodor's Travel |location=New York |isbn=978-1-101-87971-9 |edition=22nd}}
• {{cite book |last1=Bull |first1=Brett |title=Fodor's Tokyo |date=2011 |publisher=Fodor's Travel |location=New York |isbn=978-0-307-48050-7 |edition=4th}}

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Category:Mass media in Tokyo

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