Japan Media Review interviews Hirotsugo Koike, the editor-in-chief of Nikkei Net Interactive, the electronic publishing division of Nihon Keizai Shimbun, the world’s largest (3 million print circulation) daily financial newspaper.
- “I personally am very concerned about the tendency among young people in Japan to no longer read newspapers every day … I ask my boys to read the newspaper every day, though I don’t know if they actually do.”
Although Japan is a more literate country than the US, there are striking similarities in the challenges both countreis’ newspaeprs face.