The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. It is published by The Japan Times, Ltd. (æ ªå¼ä¼šç¤¾ã‚¸ãƒ£ãƒ'ンタイムズ, Kabushiki gaisha Japan Taimuzu), a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc.. It is headquartered in the Kioicho Building (紀尾井ç"ºãƒ"ル, Kioicho Biru) in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo.
History
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The Japan Times was launched by Motosada Zumoto on March 22, 1897, with the goal of giving Japanese an opportunity to read and discuss news and current events in English to help Japan to participate in the international community. The paper was independent of government control, but from 1931 onward, the Japanese government was mounting pressure on the paper's editors to submit to its policies. In 1933, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs managed to appoint Hitoshi Ashida, former Ministry official, as chief editor.
During World War II, the newspaper served as an outlet for Imperial Japanese government propaganda and editorial opinion. The paper's circulation at that time was about 825,000. It was successively renamed The Japan Times and Mail (1918â€"1940) following its merger with The Japan Mail, The Japan Times and Advertiser (1940â€"1943) following its merger with The Japan Advertiser, and Nippon Times (1943â€"1956) before reverting to the Japan Times title in 1956. The temporary change to Nippon Times occurred during ban of English language sentiment during World War II era Japan.
Shintaro Fukushima (1907å¹´- 1987) became the president in 1956. He exchanged each company's stock with Toshiaki Ogasawara (å°ç¬ 原 æ•æ™¶ Ogasawara Toshiaki). After Fukushima renounced managing rights, Ogasawara's company Nifco, a manufacturer of automotive fasteners, acquired control of The Japan Times in 1983 and changed all of former staffs and company's tradition established in 1897. Nifco chairman Toshiaki Ogasawara also served as the chairman and publisher of The Japan Times until 2016. His daughter Yukiko Ogasawara (å°ç¬ 原 有è¼å Ogasawara Yukiko) was president of the company from 2006 to 2012, when she was replaced by career Japan Times staffer Takeharu Tsutsumi. Yukiko succeeded her father as chairman of the company in 2016. Nifco sold The Japan Times to News2u Holdings, Inc. on June 30, 2017.
After being sold to the "PR company" News2u, the Japan Times changed its editorial stance and contributor lineup as part of efforts to reduce criticism of the paper as an "anti-Japanese" outlet. In November 2018, the newspaper announced in an editor's note that it would replace the term "forced labor" with "wartime laborers", and the term "comfort women" with "women who worked in wartime brothels, including those who did so against their will, to provide sex to Japanese soldiers", in its subsequent articles. The change drew immediate criticism from readers and employees, with particular concerns expressed over the paper's apparent alignment with the political positions of Prime Minister ShinzÅ Abe.
Content
The Japan Times, Inc. publishes three periodicals: The Japan Times, an English-language daily broadsheet; The Japan Times Weekly, an English-language weekly in tabloid form; and Shukan ST, a weekly in tabloid format, targeted at Japanese learning English. The daily's content includes:
- News: domestic and world news; domestic and overseas business news.
- Opinion: editorials, op-eds, and letters to the editor.
- Features: life and style, community, media, technology, food and drink, travel, environment, education, cartoons.
- Entertainment: film, art, music, stage, books, event previews, festival listing.
- Sports: domestic and overseas sports news, including coverage of baseball, soccer, basketball, sumo, figure skating.
Since 16 October 2013, The Japan Times has been printed and sold along with The New York Times International Edition.
Web
Printed stories from The Japan Times are archived online. The newspaper has a reader's forum and, since 2013, the website offers a section for readers' comments below articles. This came about during a redesign and redevelopment of the newspaper, using Responsive Web Design techniques so the site is optimised for all digital devices. The Japan Times has a social media presence on Twitter (2007), Facebook (2007) and Google+ (2011).
Former contributors
- Monty DiPietro, art critic
- John Gauntner, Nihonshu columnist
- Don Maloney
- Dreux Richard, African community, investigative
- Donald Richie, book, film critic
- Edward Seidensticker
- Robert Yellin Ceramic Scene columnist
- Jean Pearce, Community columnist
- Fred Varcoe, Sports editor
- Elyse Rogers and Fume Miyatake, Women in Business Columnists
- Mark Brazil, "Wild Watch" nature columnist (1982â€"2015)
Employee unions
Staff at The Japan Times are represented by two unions, one of which is Tozen.
Production
- Capital: ¥100,000,000
- Business: Publishes The Japan Times, The Japan Times On Sunday, The Japan Times Alpha (a bilingual weekly), books in English and Japanese
Books
- Genki: an Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese
- A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
See also
- Yomiuri Shimbun
- International Herald Tribune
- Asahi Shimbun
References
External links
- The Japan Times Online
- The Japan Times Plus
- The Japan Times Bookclub
- Genki Online
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