Japan Today sold
GPlus Media, the company that publishes Japan Today, is sold to Fuji TV-Lab, a subsidiary of Fuji Media Holdings Inc. The sales also includes GPlus’ other internet properties, including GaijinPot and Real Estate Japan. Fuji TV-Lab:
The Japanese government has set an annual target of 20 million foreign visitors to Japan in 2020 for the Tokyo Olympic/Paralympics Games and Fuji Media Holdings expects this will increase the demand for media targeting foreign residents and visitors to Japan at an accelerated pace. In the context of this trend, Fuji Media Holdings understands that there is a favorable opportunity to create several inbound/outbound businesses and thus welcomes GPlus Media and REJ into the group to strengthen its ability to reach the foreign community in Japan.
Finally! They bought them to control what to say on social media, but not out of high evaluation.
This is good to know!!! I often read Japan Today.
Interesting. This is the same Fuji group that owns Fuji TV, an outlet that has been attacked for being pro-Korean and for showing Korean shows too often.
I have been a daily reader of the Japan Times for about one year now. While I have been satisfied with its seeming
independence of ‘the government line,’ I have noticed that it has stopped allowing comments on at least one of its op-ed writers in the last couple of weeks.
I have been a daily reader of the Japan Times for about one year now. While I have been satisfied with its seeming independence of ‘the government line,’ I have noticed that it has stopped allowing comments on at least one of its op-ed writers in the last couple of weeks.