When you start to learn foreign language, the local news can be a convenience tool for your study. There are a lot of news services in Japan so let me introduce the famous one.
The most famous one would be “NHK” which is like a government news. They are not private news so it is said to be fair news. If you buy a TV in Japan, you automatically have to have the obligation to pay for NHK. So, someone from NHK will visit your house and collect the fee. Instead of this paying system, NHK don’t adopt any TV commercial. That is why it is said to be fair.
When it comes to newspaper, I would say Asahi, Yomiuri and Nikkey could be one of the most famous journal. These three journal have their individual feature and concept for their contents. At first, Asahi deals with daily common event and its point of view is always general. In this aspect, it’s like NHK. They are recommended to be read by students for educational purpose. Second, Yomiuri more focus on Sports event than any other newspaper. Yumiuri is also famous for baseball team as well as soccer. It also arranges famous new year marathon called “Ekiden” every year. Third, Nikkey is economic news. It was said to be necessary information for stock market trader. You can see Japanese market trend with it. Compared with previous president, it seems Nikkey supports the market plan of Abe president because he more focus on economic condition.
For iPhone APP or web news, I would recommend Yahoo news in Japan, which would be more famous than Google news. One of the reasons why it became so famous in Japan is that most of PC sold in Japan typically showed Yahoo Japan web site at the first access to the internet with explorer. Yahoo mail and Yahoo auction is also popular in Japan. So, I think Yahoo service may be more widely known than Google service.
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