Hi, I’m curious about student newspaper activity, be it printed or not; Japanese, English, bilingual or otherwise, and trends you’ve seen in student readership. I’d love to take someone out to lunch to talk about this, or just meet up on Zoom. There’s a ton of ad-hoc student sites, quite a few newspaper clubs (157 of which participated in a national student newspaper contest as per this articleof which few seem to have publicly available copies, reports on activity indicates there’s a bunch of private schools with club papers as well, and then you’ve got a giant like Waseda Sports on the college side of things.
Here’s a great example of an active school – these are not the enormous multi-page printed newspapers I grew up with, more like a newsletter, but that’s fine.
There’s the national HS Student Paper, but this isn’t the same thing.
Let me know what your own school is up to; would be grateful for your time.
by Johoku