Hi Nigel-

please note that your article has not been "censored" or "deleted", just removed from the top page ("hidden"). it can still be read here:
japan.indymedia.org/newswire/display/4152/index.php

like most imcs at this point, we do not have an 'anything goes' open publishing newswire. our current editorial policy can be found here japan.indymedia.org/mod/info/display/policy/index.php

your posting for example goes against
"3. Non-Japanese language posts without clear relevance to the region (Japanese, Hokkaido and Ryukyuu Islands, East Asia) or social movements.
and
5. Cross-postings to multiple open publishing venues, esp. IMCs. If you want to organize internationally, think of your audience and make a sincere effort at localization, including translation. Certain movement announcements or calls for solidarity may be OK."

As such we would be justified in deleting it alltogether.

we had a short discussion about this on the mailing list and other editors agreed. if you look through the list of hidden articles you will see many like yours. you have not been singled out.

last, please understand we are a very small team of volunteers and we are rather exhausted battling against aggressive cross-posters, spammers and worse, and actually trying to encourage locally relevant postings. Please respect that our resources are limited- ie. Time, concentration and, not least server space.