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 article](https://shigayukan.com/%e8%99%8e%e5%a7%ab%e9%ab%98%e6%a0%a1%e6%96%b0%e8%81%9e%e9%83%a8-%e5%85%a8%e5%9b%bd%e7%b7%8f%e6%96%87%e7%a5%ad%e3%81%a7%e6%9c%80%e5%84%aa%e7%a7%80%e8%b3%9e/)of which few seem to have publicly available copies, [reports on activity indicates there’s a bunch of private schools with club papers as well](https://www.study1.jp/kanto/special/club/cultural/club.html?c=newspaper), and then you’ve got a giant like [Waseda Sports](http://wasedasports.com/) on the college side of things.
Here’s a [great example](https://www23.sapporo-c.ed.jp/sapporo-kaisei/index.cfm/30,html) 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](https://www.koukouseishinbun.jp/), but this isn’t the same thing.
Let me know what your own school is up to; would be grateful for your time.
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Actually started mine during Corona. It’s just a double sided a4. I work at a small school so there isn’t always something the students want to put in so I bulk it with articles from BBC newsround. The kids mostly like the puzzles on the back (wordsearch etc). I find the teachers read it for English practice a lot of the time.