Name: The Japan Times
Author: Multiple
Update rate: Daily
Source Type: Traditional
Description: The Japan Times is the largest English newspaper in Japan. It hosts a variety of content for users to explore from News and opinions to culture and city guides. The information available is updated daily as they edit and add new content. This source is as a means to develop a conservative view of the many events that unfold in and relating to Japan.
The site can be access at https://www.japantimes.co.jp/
Name: The Asahi Shimbun
Author: Multiple
Update rate: Daily
Source Type: Traditional
Description: The Asahi Shimbun has offices located in multiple different cities around Japan. Each office provides a different perspective on national news and also a variety of local news sources that might not be available elsewhere. The Asahi Shimbun covers topics related to politics, business, travel, sports, and information on a few other Asian countries.
The site can be access at http://www.asahi.com/ajw/
Name: The Akahata Shimbun
Author: Multiple
Update rate: Daily
Source Type:Traditional
Description: The Akahata Shimbun is owned by the Japanese Communist Party. The website is entirely in Japanese which makes it hard to read. However, by searching keywords (in Japanese) related to the communist parties intentions stating by opposing media outlets or political opposition names I can find articles relating to the subject.http://www.jcp.or.jp/akahata/
Name: The Mainichi Shimbun
Author: Multiple
Update rate: Daily
Source Type: Traditional
Description: Like the Asahi Shimbun has offices located in multiple different cities around Japan.However, The Mainichi Shimbun also covers topics related to politics, business, travel, sports, and information on a few other Asian countries from a more liberal point of view.
The site can be access at http://www.asahi.com/ajw/
Name: Loco in Yokohama
Author: Multiple
Update rate: Periodically
Source Type:New Media
Description:This blog is written by an American named Baye McNeil is currently living in Japan. His blogs have covered topics from language translations to controversial topics about race. Baye McNeil’s blogs to show how some foreigners within Japan view events in Japan as the unfold whether it be News related or anything else. Loco in Yokohama helped me shape a more complete thought by combining information gathered from Japanese media, Japanese social media, and foreigner input.
Baye McNeil’s site can be access at http://www.locoinyokohama.com/
Name: Twitter Advanced Search Engine
Author: Multiple
Update rate:
Source Type:Social Media
Description: Twitter is an amazing social media platform because of how instantaneous information can be uploaded and shared via tweeting. By setting keywords and certain locations in the advanced search option I will be able to view tweets from Japanese nationals within the designated areas. This was a useful tool as I pieced together news articles and events with the information posted on twitter from Japanese twitter users that I followed. I’ve chose to follow were current Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of the LDP and also SNA (Shingetsu News Agency) which is an independent agency operated by former a university lecturer and journalist specializing in West Asian and Japanese History and Politics
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe: https://twitter.com/abeshinzo?lang=en
SNA:https://twitter.com/ShingetsuNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Name: Japan Today Facebook
Author: Multiple
Update rate: Daily
Source Type: Social Media
Description: The Japan Today Facebook page regularly post news articles from their website. Articles provide insight from Japanese nationals in both english and Japanese on current events.
The data can be accessed at https://www.facebook.com/pg/JapanToday/posts/?ref=page_internal
Name: NHK World
Author: Multiple
Update rate: Daily
Source Type:Audio / Visual
Description: NKH is a television broadcast provider in Japan that covers a wide variety of content. They provide broadcast from all over the country and I believe I can use this source to link together what Japanese media, social media, and a few other sources together in order to get a more complete picture. The site can access https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
Name: ANN News
Author: Multiple
Update rate: Daily
Source Type:Audio / Visual
Description: ANN News is a television broadcast shown live on youtube that covers a wide variety of content. The ANN however is They provide broadcast from all over the country and I believe I can use this source to link together what Japanese media, social media, and a few other sources together in order to get a more complete picture. The site can access https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
https://www.youtube.com/user/ANNnewsCH/featured
Name: News Bank Inc
Author: Multiple
Update rate: Daily
Source Type: Data Source
Description: NewsBankInc has a continuously updated news archive that retrieves daily entries from news sources around the world. News Bank Inc has four different Japanese news sources that they acquire their information from. The Japan Times, Japan News, and Kyodo News International which are mostly national news reporting agencies. http://infoweb.newsbank.com.proxy.lib.ohio-state.edu/apps/news/?p=WORLDNEWS
Name: Wikipedia
Author: Multiple
Update rate: Daily
Source Type: Data Source
Description: While this may not be a source in the traditional sense, wikipedia has a large database of local, regional, and national newspapers. Many of the websites are in Japanese without any english translations however, with a dictionary they become easier to navigate and provides local focused information in different regions.
This data can be accessed at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_Japan