ABSTRACT
The trajectory of this examination of Japanese newspapers—the industry structure, the history, the functions, the practices and the values of journalism and the newspaper content that these yield, and, in the previous chapter, the layout and contents of several newspapers and a focused examination of how several local newspapers reflect the reality of their locale—begs the question, when it comes to newspapers in Japan, who is reading what newspapers and why, and who is making them the way they are, and why?
