Yahizumi Culture Journal

## Yahizumi Culture JournalYahizumi Bunka Jiānaru

The **Yahizumi Culture Journal**, also known as **YBJ**, is a controversial tabloid news company operating in Kimsu and Gonsu. It is the second largest non-broadcast news company in Kimsu, after the Kimsu Express.

YBJ news focuses on the politics and culture of the nations it operates in. Their views are generally left-leaning and focus on personal freedoms, free speech and freedom of the press.

The company is named after the Yahizumi River which flows through the Kimsu capital, Kuwon. Their logo depicts a cherry blossom branch and the Latin letters YBJ.

## History

The Yahizumi Culture Journal was created in 1994 by Tameru Yahimoto.

## Controversies

### Views on Race

The YBJ has criticized the large presence of white people in Gonsu and Kotal several times, including but not limited to criticizing the fame of Gonsunese musician Jake Ewior (Damcat) and the positions of Gonsunese prime minister Smith Jameson and at-the-time Kotalian president Jack Loninald. They support the goals of the Gonsu for the Gonsunese movement that was created in 2023.

### Kuna Nuclear Disaster (2002, 2005)

YBJ heavily criticized the actions of the Gonsunese government following the Kuna Nuclear Disaster, citing several expert opinions about the dangerous nature of the variant corium that had been removed from the reactor site.

Following news of the KNEUT-3 Disaster in 2005, YBJ released an article highly condemning the allowance of such an event to happen. The article was seen as so inflammatory that several Gonsunese politicians pushed to have it be taken down and physical copies removed from stores, but this was ultimately dropped.

### Dog Consumption Ban (2017)

YBJ criticized Jelkom Shojiro's rushed law to ban the consumption of dog meat. Their article claimed that it was a "gross misconduct of [his] powers to ban such an act after taking merely personal offense to it" and that "the rush to pass the act into law in a single day shows a clear negligence for proper proceedings". YBJ supported the 'Dog Meat Enforcers' protest group that emerged following the ban.

### Banned in Kotal (2021)

After several controversies, the Kotalian government banned sales of the YBJ and made the website inaccessible in Kotal due to its controversial words and mocking, despite being a highly republican country. The YBJ now run a monthly article specifically to mock the Kotalian government. A sizable black market exists in Kotal for copies of the YBJ, and the sale of VPNs in Kotal was significantly boosted after the YBJ site was taken down.

On April 12th, 2022, the Kotalian government enforced the law even more and arrested anyone who used the YBJ website. They even started to check computers. This was met with heavy criticism by numerous people, including normal Kotalian media outlets, who saw this as invading citizen's privacy and restricting freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

Later on October 17th, 2022, some Kotalian citizens started to protest the major censorship.

### Views on the Shojiro Family

On August 12th 2022, the YBJ published an article criticizing the significance of the Shojiro family. The article questioned how two descendants of Li Shojiro - Jelkom and Okano - were in such prominent political positions in 2022. Furthermore, the article questioned how "even the people of Kimsu have been brainwashed into electing a man from this family who try to rule by blood and not by merit." Three hours after the article was published online, the writer of the article, Kyuso Hino, made his Twitter account private after it was flooded by some angry users.

### Torūkotal Resistance (2022)

#### Views on the Torūkotal Resistance

A year after YBJ had been banned in Kotal, a resistance named the "Torūkotal Resistance" rose up and wanted to fight back.

#### Unbanned in Torūkotal

A few days after the resistance was established, they decided to unban YBJ in their captured regions so people can have freedom of speech and opinions. Many people in the regions were happy about their decision.