The Japan Times
| The Japan Times
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| description | Japanese newspaper |
| language | English |
| publishing company | The Japan Times Ltd. |
| First edition | March 22, 1897 |
| Frequency of publication | Every day |
| Web link | www.japantimes.co.jp |
The Japan Times is an English-language daily newspaper in Japan based in Minato , Tokyo . It had a daily circulation of 46,000 in 2006, just ahead of its main competitors International Herald Tribune / Asahi and Daily Yomiuri . Unlike this, it is not associated with any of the major Japanese daily newspapers. Her motto is all the news without fear or favor . Its readership in 1998 consisted of about half each Japanese and foreigners, over two thirds came from the Kantō region . Its price is 180 yen (about 1.44 euros).
history
The Japan Times first appeared on March 22, 1897 in a six-page edition. In 1918 the newspaper took over the English-language The Japan Mail and then appeared under the name The Japan Times and Mail . From 1940 she appeared after the merger with the Japan Advertiser from Tokyo and the Japan Chronicle from Kobe as The Japan Times & Advertiser . Another name change to Nippon Times followed in 1943 , before returning to its original name in 1956. In 1989 the current headquarters in the Japan Times Nifco Building in Shibaura was completed.
editor
The Japan Times is published by the corporation of the same name ( 株式会社 ジ ャ パ ン タ イ ム ズ , kabushiki kaisha japan taimuzu ), which has belonged to the plastics manufacturer KK Nifco since 1996 . President and executive director ( torishimariyaku-shachō ) was Yukiko Ogasawara, chairman and editor is Toshiaki Ogasawara, who is also chairman of Nifco.
In addition to the daily newspaper, the company also publishes the weekly publications The Japan Times Weekly and the bilingual Shūkan ST as well as English and Japanese books. It has around 160 employees. The radio station InterFM was also part of the company for a time.
Sale and pan right
In 2017, Nifco sold the Japan Times to News2u Holdings. The new owners quickly cleared the editorial staff of unwanted columnists, including Jeff Kingston from Temple University Tokyo and Yamaguchi Jiro from Hōsei University , both critics of Shinzo Abe's government .
On November 30, 2018, the Japan Times announced that it would adopt the language rules of the political right of Japan and change the term “ forced laborers ” to “workers during the war” in connection with the Second World War , and the newspaper would refer to it The forced prostitutes often referred to as “ comfort women ” no longer write of “women who were forced to have sex with Japanese troops before and during the war”, but instead use the phrase “women who worked in brothels during the war, including those who who did this against their will in order to have sex with Japanese soldiers ”. Most of the editors protested against the decision.
Japan Times journalists also reported that they were internally reprimanded for using the word " surrender " in connection with the end of World War II in Japan, and others reported that criticism of Japan was defused in their articles prior to publication.
Some of the events are interpreted as a "silent coup". Former columnist Kingston said the government now has “its own Pravda, ” with the Japan Times , noting: “Despite the reactionary panning by the editorial staff towards revisionist nonsense, reporters are still doing an excellent job, and I'm sorry that one incompetent editor damages the credibility of the newspaper. "
Web links
- General information (English)
- Official website and online edition (English, partly Japanese)
- Justin McCurry: 'Comfort women': anger as Japan paper alters description of WWII terms The Guardian , November 30, 2018.
- David McNeill, Justin McCurry: Reinventing the Japan Times: How Japan's oldest English-language newspaper tacked right The Asia Pacific Journal / Japan Focus , February 1, 2019.
- Mari Saito, Ami Miyazaki: 'Fear' and 'favor' chill newsroom at storied Japanese paper Reuters , January 25, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Foreign Press Center Japan according to the Nihon ABC Kyōkai ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 122 kB)
- ↑ according to the Nihon ABC Kyōkai (PDF; 2.1 MB)
- ↑ a b c d McNeill / McCurry 2019.
- ↑ Saito / Miyazaki 2019, McCurry 2018.
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