Many of the opinions about WaiWai asked the Mainichi about whether it had thought about what effect reporting to the world these stories in English would have, or that these articles would lead to a spread of misinformation about Japan.
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/culture/waiwai/

The writer was Australian who had lived in Japan for 2 years. And it seemed that this guy had been criticized a lot. Hope his family's OK...

http://www9.atwiki.jp/mainichiwaiwai/pages/14.html

Anyway, you shouldn't really believe what tabloid says and shouldn't write a news article based on what you see on other company's tabloid magazines. And when you do, you have to make sure your audience knows it's tabloid. That's all the problem was.