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Oct 21, 2025

The newspaper and you!

Do you get a newspaper delivered to your house or buy one in a shop or subscribe to / read one daily online? Or just read it every now and then? Or can you not remember the last time you read the newspaper?

BigfamJapan

BigfamJapan

Former nickname was "Saitama". Changed it to save confusion on place review posts! Irish, 20+ years in Japan! I also write on my personal website: insaitama.com

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  • genkidesu

    14 hours ago

    I read multiple online sources each day, but I can't remember the last time I actually read a print copy of one! Sometimes at certain hotels here they drop off the daily newspaper at the door each morning, and I would say those are the only real times where I read a print copy. Fairly rarely!

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  • genkidesu

    14 hours ago

    I should have mentioned some of my favorite online sources, too! https://www.japantimes.co.jp/ https://mainichi.jp/english/ https://www.asahi.com/ajw/ https://news.web.nhk/newsweb/area/150 (specifically for Niigata-based news via NHK, but you can filter by different prefectures on their site)

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  • TonetoEdo

    11 hours ago

    My workplace gets daily delivery of Nihon Keizai, Mainichi, Japan Times, and a regional newspaper. Anything historic happens, and the paper gets passed around the office. I read all the sources Genkidesu mentions, usually on the commute to work. I glance at Nikkei Asia - https://asia.nikkei.com/ now and again. I had an online subscription during the pandemic. Their coverage and rate of updates are impressive.

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