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Communications and the Media:
The Media
If you know Japanese, Japan is a world with full notices, with 166 daily national and local newspaper companies printing some 70 million papers a day, more than triple the amount for the UK and even topping the US and China, despite both having much larger populations. The Yomiuri Shimbun sells approximately fourteen million copies daily, making it the most extensively read newspaper in the world. Lagging behind by about two million copies a day is the The International Herald Tribune Asahi Shimbun , seen as the intellectual's paper, with the other three national dailies, the Mainichi Shimbun , the right-wing Sankei Shimbun and the business paper the Nihon Keizai Shimbun , also selling respectable numbers.
The Time and Newsweek are English-language magazines most extensively available. Bookstores such as Kinokuniya and Maruzen Bookstores stock extensive (and costly) ranges of imported and local magazines; in Tokyo and Osaka, Tower Records is the economical place to buy magazines. Local titles to look out for include the weekly Tokyo Classified (free), Tokyo Journal (¥600) and Kansai Time Out (¥300), well-written listings and features magazines for their respective areas. With more a fanzine feel, The Alien and The Outsider are published in Nagoya and Hiroshima respectively.
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