2015.10.15

It was fine.

They say it is "Newspaper Week." There are some special columns regarding newspaper in  today's paper.
With the spreading of smart phones, people tend to read news through Internet, and less people subscribe the newspaper these days. 
On the train most people are using the cellphones or smartphones and I do not see the people reading newspaper so much like before.
I myself listen to the news by smartphone while riding on the train or watch TV at home and don't have much time to read newspaper in the morning and read it at night after coming back taking time on weekdays.

When I worked at the places where subscribed several newspapers, I enjoyed reading some of them at lunch time.

Now there is a library at school, so I can read many if I wish. But I usually watch NHK's TV drama at lunch time, and read something else at office to save time.

How about you ?

2013.4.4

It was fine today.
I cleared old newspaper, mail-order catalogs, and so on.  Newspaper is shimbun (新聞) in Japanese, but the old one is called shimbunshi (新聞紙 ) or furu shimbun (古新聞).
Shin means new, bun means to hear.  After one day passed, it is not new any more.
However there are many articles which are useful after the day it was issued such as story, cooking, book review and so on.  Sometimes when I went to business trip for 10 days or so, I like to read them through after coming home.  But to read for a month volume at a time must be too much.

2012.4.5

There were two interesting articles in today's newspaper. One is the dreams of the children and the other is the number of high school students who wish to study abroad. Both were the results of questionnaires.
The results of the future professions of the 4000 first year students who just entered the elementary school were No.1 is sports player, No. 2 is policeman, No. 3 is driver or conductor for boys and No. 1 is the confectionery or sweets shop, No. 2 is TV personalities or singer, No. 3 is the flower shop for girls.
The professions their parents want them to be was No. 1 for boys was public servant and for girls was nurse which were the same as the previous year.
Regarding the second article, the ratio of the Japanese high school students who wish to study abroad was 46% which was the lowest among Japan, the USA, China, and Korea. 82 % of the Korean high school students wish to study abroad which was the highest among 4 countries.

十二月二十七日（jyunigatsu nijyushichi nichi）： December 27

Last Monday of 2010.
In the newspaper they started wrapping up the year 2010, and there were articles of 10 big business news, or 10 best seller books or 10 best seller CDs or one's 3 best movies of the year and so on.
Besides these there were many articles of sports events of yesterday.
There was one small article which drew my attention. It is a picture of the artist who went to Hungary with his hair half shaved which is hangari (半刈り) in Japanese. It is the fruit of his sense of humor.
Actually there were two pictures. One is left side shaved, the other is right side shaved. He had rather long hair, moustache, and beard. It took 3 years to take that picture until he has the same length of the hair. But while waiting, the artist lived his life as usual. It's amazing.

一月二十六日（ichigatsu nijyuroku nichi）： January 26

How do you get the news?
Newspaper (新聞：shimbun), TV (テレビ：terebi), Radio (ラジオ：rajio), or Internet (インターネット：intanetto)?
There are some nationwide newspapers in Japan. They are called zenkoku shi (全国紙). Other newspapers are circulated by region or by prefecture, and called chiho shi (地方紙). There are sports papers (スポーツ紙：supotsu shi) and specialty papers (専門紙：senmon shi) too. Some are issued twice a day. Morning paper is called chokan (朝刊), and evening paper is called yukan (夕刊). Usually morning paper has more pages and is more expensive than evening paper.
The first Japanese newspaper began in the 17th century as kawara ban (瓦版), literally tile-block printing.
The five major nationwide newspapers and their circulations are Yomiuri Shimbun (読売新聞), 10,020,000 copies, Asahi Shimbun (朝日新聞), 8,030,000 copies, Mainichi Shimbun (毎日新聞), 3,770,000 copies, Nihon Keizai Shimbun (日本経済新聞), 3,050,000 copies, and Sankei Shimbun (産経新聞), 1,850,000 copies.