''JANJAN'' (), short for ''Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures'' (), was a Japanese
online newspaper started by Ken Takeuchi, journalist and former mayor of
Kamakura, Kanagawa. Launched in February 2003, the newspaper is credited for pioneering
citizen journalism
Citizen journalism, also known as collaborative media, participatory journalism, democratic journalism, guerrilla journalism or street journalism, is based upon public citizens "playing an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, a ...
in Japan. After registration, anyone was free to post comments on the JANJAN website. However, there were different windows for registering depending on the nationality or ethnicity of the potential poster (i.e. a different one for "Foreigners" (外国の方) and Japanese).
The bulk of the newspaper's revenue came from advertisements by its corporate sponsor.
Due a lack of revenue, the newspaper ceased publication at the end of March 2010. In May of the same year, it was replaced by a journalistic blog named "JanJanBlog", which was operated until 31 December 2013. , articles on both the newspaper and blog are no longer available.
References
* The article was originally a partial translation of the corresponding article (October 1, 2007) in
Japanese Wikipedia
The is the Japanese-language edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-source online encyclopedia. Started on 11 May 2001, the edition attained the 200,000 article mark in April 2006 and the 500,000 article mark in June 2008. As of , it has over ar ...
.
External links
Official websitein Japanese.
Asian news websites
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