Horie Addresses Correspondents' Club of Japan
Developing his theory on the power structure
December 14, 2009, Tokyo, Japan - Takafumi Horie, former CEO of the Japanese portal site "livedoor." delivers his remarks during a news conference at Tokyo's Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on Monday, December 14, 2009. Horie, who was arrested for alleged financial improprieties, discussed the power held by Japanese prosecutors, and the role played by the media in their campaigns in what he terms a "state sponsored investigation" with Nobuo Gohara, director of the Compliance Research Center of Meijo University and Karel van Wolferen, Dutch journalist and author of "The Enigma of Japanese Power." (Photo by AFLO) [3609] -bun-