Japan's media is very respectable. Its five large newspaper companies dominate Japan's media. The newspapers have tremendous brand image, ownership of television broadcasters, magazine divisions, Japanese baseball teams, and other media sources (Fujimoto, Kitada, & Scuka, 2001, p. 2).
             The newspapers in Japan are not as freely expressive to the public as those are in the United States or other countries. When the media is covering tragic events excessively, readers in Japan care more about the
             government controlling what the press is reporting on than about their own freedom of expression. This has caused the Diet (Japanese Congress) to debate about several new laws aimed for protecting youth and other extensive categories of press freedom (Fujimoto, Kitada, & Scuka, 2001, p.2).
             Japan writers and reporters commonly use self-censorship and rarely take extreme views on issues. Weekly tabloid magazines are the only source of that kind of information. Also, newspapers offer the most accurate and reliable information that the public can trust (Fujimoto, Kitada, & Scuka, 2001, p.3).
             The Japanese population has started to embrace the newest media source, the Internet. High-speed access is becoming cheap and easily available. The information that is offered has become far more complex then what the papers regularly offer. With one of the highest literate populations and the largest newspaper circulation in the world, the Internet is threatening the major newspaper companies (Fujimoto, Kitada, & Scuka, 2001, p.3).
             New sources such as Web radio, wireless Web communications, wireless email, and digital cable television are all examples of the newest technological media channels in Japan (Fujimoto, Kitada, & Scuka, 2001,
             p.6). This new media is already beginning to feel and look drastically different then the media of the
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