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Marketing analyst Harada

OSAKA, Japan, June 6 Kyodo - Marketing analyst Yohei Harada speaks at a national convention of the Japan-Newspaper Orikomi Advertising Agencies Association in the western Japan city of Osaka on Nov. 2, 2023.(Kyodo)

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'Extra' editions published on Abe's announcement of resignation

NAGOYA, Japan - Newspaper 'extra' editions reporting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's announcement of his intention to resign are distributed in Nagoya on Sept. 12. In his announcement, Abe said he believes it would be difficult to regain public trust and to get an extension of Japan's refueling mission in the Indian Ocean if his leadership continues.

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Symposium on newspapers' roles in digital era

TOKYO, Japan - The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association holds a symposium in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2014, to discuss roles of newspapers in the depopulating society and the digital era.

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Iwate Nippo daily reopens bureau in quake-hit town

MORIOKA, Japan - Newspaper publisher Iwate Nippo Co., based in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, holds a ceremony in Rikuzentakata on Oct. 8, 2014, to commemorate the completion of a new local bureau office replacing its predecessor severely damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan.

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2 Japanese, American awarded Nobel Prize for inventing blue LED

OSAKA, Japan - Newspaper extra editions, reporting the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 to two Japanese and a Japanese-born American physicists, are handed out to passers-by in Osaka's Namba district on Oct. 7, 2014. Two Japanese physicists -- Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano -- and Japanese-born American Shuji Nakamura were awarded the prize for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes.

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Taipei photo exhibition on quake, tsunami in Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A man looks at a picture, taken by Japan's Sankei Shimbun, showing damage caused by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, at a news photo exhibition in Taipei on April 10, 2014. Photographs by 13 news organizations, members of the Japan Newspaper Publishers

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Taipei photo exhibition on quake, tsunami in Japan

TAIPEI, Taiwan - A visitor looks at a picture, taken by Japan's Niigata Nippo, showing damage caused by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami, at a news photo exhibition in Taipei on April 10, 2014. Photographs by 13 news organizations, members of the Japan Newspaper Publishers

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Local photographer captures 42 yrs of Okinawa

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken June 20, 2013 shows Hiroaki Yamashiro, a photographer from Okinawa who is exhibiting photos of the southern Japanese prefecture he has taken over the past 42 years, at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama.

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Hokkaido aims to lure tourists from Thailand in spring

KUSHIRO, Japan - Newspaper journalists and others from Thailand enjoy canoeing around Kushiro Marsh in eastern Hokkaido on April 23, 2013, as part of an experimental tour to attract Thai tourists to Japan's northernmost prefecture in spring.

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Kawabata's early novel

FUKUOKA, Japan - Photo shows copies of a serialized novel titled "Utsukushii!" (Beautiful!) published in the 1920s in the southwestern Japan newspaper Fukuoka Nichinichi Shimbun. Researcher Takumi Ishikawa said Feb. 17, 2013, that the novel has been confirmed as an early work of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972).

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Kawabata's early novel

TOKYO, Japan - This 1966 file photo shows Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972). Researcher Takumi Ishikawa said Feb. 17, 2013, that a serialized novel titled "Utsukushii!" (Beautiful!), published in the 1920s in the southwestern Japan newspaper Fukuoka Nichinichi Shimbun, has been confirmed as an early work of Kawabata.

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Exhibition of WWII-themed works by cartoonist Mizuki

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A visitor looks at World War II-themed works by cartoonist Shigeru Mizuki, author of the popular horror comic series ''Gegege no Kitaro,'' at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Nov. 5, 2011. The exhibit began the same day and will run until Dec. 25.

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Crown prince at photo exhibit

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito views news photos of the devastation caused by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan on display at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama on May 20, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)

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Handwritten newspaper from Ishinomaki exhibited

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A woman reads a handwritten newspaper issued shortly after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster by the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun, a daily in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, exhibited at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama on May 14, 2011. The paper had been exhibited at the Newseum, a museum in Washington, and is being provided to the museum in Yokohama on loan.

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2010 press photo exhibition in Yokohama

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Visitors take a look at photographs on display at the 2010 press photography exhibition at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama on Jan. 8, 2011. The event organized by the museum and the Tokyo Press Photographers Association runs through March 6.

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Kin of convicted editor seek acquittal in Yokohama Incident

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shinichi Ono (R) and his sister Nobuko Saito speak at a press conference at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama on Feb. 17. Ono and Saito called for the conviction of their deceased father Yasuhito Ono, a wartime magazine editor, to be quashed during a retrial hearing at the Yokohama District Court of the so-called Yokohama Incident, a case concerning the repression of free speech during World War II in which Yasuhito Ono was convicted.

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Asahi Shimbun adviser resigns as head of newspaper association

TOKYO, Japan - Shinichi Hakoshima, executive adviser of the Asahi Shimbun, said at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7 that he will resign as the chairman of the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association to take responsibility for a recent scandal involving a fabricated report on the Sept. 11 general election by the major national daily.

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Asahi Shimbun adviser to resign as head of newspaper association

TOKYO, Japan - Shinichi Hakoshima (file photo), executive adviser of the Asahi Shimbun, said Sept. 7 he will resign as the chairman of the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association due to a recent scandal involving a fabricated report on the Sept. 11 general election by the major national daily.

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Media groups voice objection to bill on human rights

TOKYO, Japan - Representatives from three media groups in Japan on March 7 submit to Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (L, with back to camera) a joint statement opposing a government bill on human rights. The statement says the bill ''will allow unjustified interference in media coverage by the government.'' The groups are the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association, the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan and Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK).

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Media representatives open meeting

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association (Nihon Shimbun Kyokai) opens a 2-day annual convention in Yokohama on Oct. 17. The 53rd such gathering was attended by some 540 representatives of newspapers, news agencies and broadcast stations throughout Japan.

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Japan's 1st newspaper museum opens in Yokohama

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Red and white ribbons are cut Oct. 12 in a ceremony to mark the opening of ''Newspark,'' Japan's first newspaper museum, in Yokohama, the birthplace of the nation's thriving newspaper industry. The Japan Newspaper Museum has 150,000 items on display, including old newspapers and presses, many with explanations in both Japanese and English.

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Media groups voice objection to bill on human rights

TOKYO, Japan - Representatives from three media groups in Japan on March 7 submit to Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Shinzo Abe (L, with back to camera) a joint statement opposing a government bill on human rights. The statement says the bill ''will allow unjustified interference in media coverage by the government.'' The groups are the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association, the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan and Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK).

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Japan Newspaper Museum reopens in Yokohama

Visitors test an interactive exhibition at Newspark, also known as the Japan Newspaper Museum, in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 20, 2016, the day of its reopening following an overhaul of its displays. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan Newspaper Museum reopens in Yokohama

Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi (L) and Kojiro Shiraishi, chairman of the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association, participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on July 20, 2016, to mark the reopening of Newspark, also known as the Japan Newspaper Museum, following an overhaul of its displays. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Newspaper museum holds exhibition on Meiji-era daily founded in 1889

A visitor views panels on display at a special exhibition on "Nippon," a newspaper founded in 1889 by Meiji-era journalist Katsunan Kuga, at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama southwest of Tokyo on June 20, 2015. The daily was often targeted by government censors at the time for its criticism of the administration. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Newspaper museum holds exhibition on Meiji-era daily founded in 1889

A visitor views items on display at a special exhibition on "Nippon," a newspaper founded in 1889 by Meiji-era journalist Katsunan Kuga, at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama southwest of Tokyo on June 20, 2015. The daily was often targeted by government censors at the time for its criticism of the administration. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Newspaper clipping workshop held at university in Yamagata

A participant clips an article from a newspaper during a workshop hosted by the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association on May 26, 2015, at the Tohoku University of Art and Design in Yamagata, Japan. The event is aimed at raising young people's interest in reading newspapers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Newspaper clipping workshop held at university in Yamagata

A participant explains her work made from newspaper clippings during a workshop hosted by the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association on May 26, 2015, at the Tohoku University of Art and Design in Yamagata, Japan. The event is aimed at raising young people's interest in reading newspapers. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Award-winning pro 'shogi' chess player aims at interesting matches

Professional "shogi" player Kenji Imaizumi shows the Happy News Person Award received from the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association at a ceremony in Osaka, western Japan, on April 6. Imaizumi, the youngest player of the Japanese chess game to have been certified as a professional since the end of World War II, said he will keep aiming to play interesting matches. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Newspaper publishers hold event in north Japan to attract young readers

A student pastes newspaper scraps during an event held by the Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association at a university in Yamagata city, northwestern Japan, on May 26, 2015, to promote interest in newspapers among young people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Asahi Shimbun adviser to resign as head of newspaper association

TOKYO, Japan - Shinichi Hakoshima (file photo), executive adviser of the Asahi Shimbun, said Sept. 7 he will resign as the chairman of the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association due to a recent scandal involving a fabricated report on the Sept. 11 general election by the major national daily. (Kyodo)

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Asahi Shimbun adviser resigns as head of newspaper association

TOKYO, Japan - Shinichi Hakoshima, executive adviser of the Asahi Shimbun, said at a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 7 that he will resign as the chairman of the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association to take responsibility for a recent scandal involving a fabricated report on the Sept. 11 general election by the major national daily.(Kyodo)

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'Extra' editions published on Abe's announcement of resignation

NAGOYA, Japan - Newspaper 'extra' editions reporting Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's announcement of his intention to resign are distributed in Nagoya on Sept. 12. In his announcement, Abe said he believes it would be difficult to regain public trust and to get an extension of Japan's refueling mission in the Indian Ocean if his leadership continues. (Kyodo)

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Kin of convicted editor seek acquittal in Yokohama Incident

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Shinichi Ono (R) and his sister Nobuko Saito speak at a press conference at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama on Feb. 17. Ono and Saito called for the conviction of their deceased father Yasuhito Ono, a wartime magazine editor, to be quashed during a retrial hearing at the Yokohama District Court of the so-called Yokohama Incident, a case concerning the repression of free speech during World War II in which Yasuhito Ono was convicted. (Kyodo)

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2010 press photo exhibition in Yokohama

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Visitors take a look at photographs on display at the 2010 press photography exhibition at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama on Jan. 8, 2011. The event organized by the museum and the Tokyo Press Photographers Association runs through March 6. (Kyodo)

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Crown prince at photo exhibit

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Japanese Crown Prince Naruhito views news photos of the devastation caused by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami in northeastern Japan on display at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama on May 20, 2011. (Pool photo by Kyodo News)(Kyodo)

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Handwritten newspaper from Ishinomaki exhibited

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A woman reads a handwritten newspaper issued shortly after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster by the Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun, a daily in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, exhibited at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama on May 14, 2011. The paper had been exhibited at the Newseum, a museum in Washington, and is being provided to the museum in Yokohama on loan. (Kyodo)

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Iwate Nippo daily reopens bureau in quake-hit town

MORIOKA, Japan - Newspaper publisher Iwate Nippo Co., based in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, holds a ceremony in Rikuzentakata on Oct. 8, 2014, to commemorate the completion of a new local bureau office replacing its predecessor severely damaged by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan. (Kyodo)

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2 Japanese, American awarded Nobel Prize for inventing blue LED

OSAKA, Japan - Newspaper extra editions, reporting the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2014 to two Japanese and a Japanese-born American physicists, are handed out to passers-by in Osaka's Namba district on Oct. 7, 2014. Two Japanese physicists -- Isamu Akasaki and Hiroshi Amano -- and Japanese-born American Shuji Nakamura were awarded the prize for the invention of efficient blue light-emitting diodes. (Kyodo)

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Exhibition of WWII-themed works by cartoonist Mizuki

YOKOHAMA, Japan - A visitor looks at World War II-themed works by cartoonist Shigeru Mizuki, author of the popular horror comic series ''Gegege no Kitaro,'' at the Japan Newspaper Museum in Yokohama, near Tokyo, on Nov. 5, 2011. The exhibit began the same day and will run until Dec. 25. (Kyodo)

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Popular mascot character joins "scrapbook relay" to promote newspapers

Kumamon (R), a popular mascot character representing Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, hands his handmade newspaper scrapbook to Hyakumansan, a mascot of Ishikawa Prefecture, in Kanazawa, central Japan, on July 30, 2015. The handover was part of a "scrapbook relay" by some local government mascots to promote a project organized by the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association to attract a broader readership among the younger generation. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Media representatives open meeting

YOKOHAMA, Japan - The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association (Nihon Shimbun Kyokai) opens a 2-day annual convention in Yokohama on Oct. 17. The 53rd such gathering was attended by some 540 representatives of newspapers, news agencies and broadcast stations throughout Japan.

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Japan's 1st newspaper museum opens in Yokohama

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Red and white ribbons are cut Oct. 12 in a ceremony to mark the opening of ''Newspark,'' Japan's first newspaper museum, in Yokohama, the birthplace of the nation's thriving newspaper industry. The Japan Newspaper Museum has 150,000 items on display, including old newspapers and presses, many with explanations in both Japanese and English.