On the day after the Study Tour, Sergio Oliveira and I went together with friends from CONPT to Yokohama, the harbour city of Tokyo, to see the Japanese Newspaper Museum. The museum was established 10 years ago and is run by a foundation initiated by the Japanese Newspaper Association NSK.
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Printing in Japan Study Tour
Blog: Printing in Japan Study Tour
Here are impressions of the WAN-IFRA Study Tour in March 2010 covering four cities in three days, visiting five printing plants and a paper mill.
For more information, please see the Tour web site.
Printing in Japan Study Tour
Yokohama, a large city port very close to Tokyo, has a very interesting Newspaper Museum, very close to an underground station and to the cruise ship terminal, which presents not only the recent history of newspapers in Japan (only appeared in the country on the second half of the XIX century) as well as the development of editorial and newspaper printing during the past 150 years. A must-see museum for anybody in the industry with a few hours to spare while in Tokyo.
Another one of those small but practical and comfortable Japanese buses that served us during the inner-city travel. Attention to detail is important and this bus had the full title of the Study Tour quite visible.
After lunch we visited the Tokyo printing plant of the renowned Nikkei newspaper, the leading financial paper of the country. The Nikkei Tokyo newspaper printing centre is a 100% owned company of Nihon Keizai Shimbun. This plant in Shinonome is the biggest printing facility of the Nikkei group and delivers newspapers for most of the Tokyo area together with the Kawasaki plant.
Pratically facing the Imperial household buildings there is a minimalistic but elegant restaurant in a light and airy building where we had lunch. The meal in the middle of the day tends to be a light affair for the Japanese. Dinner seems to be the most important meal of the day. We enjoyed a quick but nice lunch while overlooking some of the buildings of the Imperial Palace complex.
A short bus trip brought us in the morning to the Tokyo head office of the national newspaper Sankei Shimbun. Sankei is number five in circulation among the large national newspapers. It was founded in 1933 and has a daily circulation of 1.7 million in the morning and 0.55 million in the evening (Osaka area). It comes in four editions for the Tokyo area and in five editions for the Osaka area including the evening paper.
In the afternoon the group visited the Nagoya printing plant of the world’s largest-circulation newspaper, the Yomiuri Shimbun. The president, Mr. Katemasu, welcomed us and introduced his company, which prints mainly various Yomiuri titles including a sports paper and a number of tabloid subcontract papers as well.
In the morning we went by fast train to Nagoya to visit the Tujimachi printing plant, which prints the leading regional Chunichi newspaper. The president Mr. Nokasai and his plant manager Mr. Teshi welcomed the Study Tour group. Right in the beginning a group photo was taken behind a welcome signpost that the employees had handcrafted.
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