Historical Places
and Other Attractions

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Language Study

Nature

Recreation

Coffee/Tea Houses

Restaurants

Shopping
local & mail-order

Organizations

Radio and TV Stations


Computing

National News

miscellaneous Japanese links


miscellaneous links

Japan News Sources

Japan doesn't have many small, local newspapers like America does. Instead, there are a half-dozen or so national newspapers that also have regional editions. All of these major papers do publish English versions of the news in one form or another. Below are the ones with better web news coverage. See the Miscellaneous Japan Links page for other information on Japan.



Mainichi Daily News

The best online
Japan news source
Japan Today

Updated often. Avoid international stories, though.
Poor journalism and incomplete stories are common.
Also avoid their discussion areas. They are usually
off-topic flame wars after the first few posts.
Singapore Yahoo's English newswire feed for Japan

Yahoo's English newswire
for Japan
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