{"id":207187,"date":"2025-10-12T06:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207187\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T06:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T06:04:08","slug":"internet-becomes-japans-top-daily-news-source-for-1st-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207187\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Becomes Japan&#8217;s Top Daily News Source for 1st Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"csp-catelogo\">\n\t\t\t\t\tNewsfrom Japan\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Society\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Society<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"c-cate c-cate2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nippon.com\/en\/articlelist.html?f=ncf-category&amp;s=Technology\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Technology<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tOct 12, 2025 10:18 (JST)<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo, Oct. 12 (Jiji Press)&#8211;The internet has become the main source of daily news in Japan, overtaking commercial television for the first time, a survey by the Japan Press Research Institute has shown.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about which news source they use on a daily basis, a question added in fiscal 2018, 46.5 pct of respondents chose the internet, according to the latest survey, released Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Commercial TV broadcasters, which had previously held the top spot, came second, at 46.1 pct.<\/p>\n<p>The proportion of those who picked TV services by public broadcaster Japan Broadcasting Corp., or NHK, stood at 35.8 pct, while newspapers logged 33.4 pct and radio 9.2 pct.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper subscription rate fell 3.7 percentage points from a year earlier to 50.1 pct, continuing to decline since marking 88.6 pct in fiscal 2008, when the survey began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo_box_c_v2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2886056.jpg\" class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"gallery\" data-libid=\"2886056\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; border: 0; padding: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2886056.jpg\" data-libid=\"2886056\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Copyright The Jiji Press, Ltd.]<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-keywords\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"\">Jiji Press<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Newsfrom Japan Society Technology Oct 12, 2025 10:18 (JST) Tokyo, Oct. 12 (Jiji Press)&#8211;The internet has become the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64,63,237,35487,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-207187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-internet","11":"tag-jiji-press","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}