ABSTRACT
The chapter focuses on the crisis in journalistic careers, starting from a paradoxical observation: while Japanese daily newspapers continue to offer comparatively high levels of job stability and income, the number of candidates for a career in the press has fallen dramatically over the last thirty years. Which specificities of journalistic work might put potential candidates off a career in the daily press sector? The working conditions of reporters based in the regional bureaus of their companies clearly underline how life–work boundaries can quickly disappear on a daily basis. This failure to achieve this work–private life balance is less and less accepted.
