I give up! WTF is a 'newspaper holiday'?

[Taro Toporific]

<RANT on>

MAITA! I give up!

WTF is the deal this Japanese shimbun no hi /newspaper holiday? Today, Monday March 10, I couldn't get my morning papers and that makes me one very cranky fellow.

Does this some special slacker holiday occurs in other places in real world?

I swear that randomly, once a month or so, newspapers in Japan are not published. Why doesn't one of the main papers (besides the Sports Shimbun and the ?Nikkei) start printing this day and grab market share away from the other slacker companies?

Arrrrrg! After 20 years, such laziness still drives me Krazy!

So, my question to all you persons-of-the-world, where else do newspapers slack off as much as Japan?

</rant off>

[canman]

Well at least it sounds like you get your newspaper on the same day as its printed. I subscribe to the wonderful Yomiyuri Shimbun, (but all the others are the same) and get it a day late. Not only that but they send the first edition, so in reality the news is two days old. Now if I'm lucky tomorrow morning when I go out to my mail box, I will find Sundays newspaper, which of course is full of Saturdays news, so it will be three days old!!!! And yes I've never heard of newspaper holidays in any other country. What is the old adage the news never rests or sleeps, well it sure does in this country.

[Taro Toporific]

And yes I've never heard of newspaper holidays in any other country. What is the old adage the news never rests or sleeps, well it sure does in this country.

I assume, that some Euro-slackers have newspaper holidays and the Japanese copied such silliness. Of course, my whole time in school in the Old World, I was too busy partying to notice <hick> whether newspaper holidays existed <hick>.

[Taro Toporific]

... Now if I'm lucky tomorrow morning when I go out to my mail box, I will find Sundays newspaper, which of course is full of Saturdays news, so it will be three days old!!!!

Out on the farm in Shikoku, I just gave up on the paper. It's was always 2- or 3 days old.

THANK BUDDHA for the Internet news!

[kamome]

I don't subscribe to a newspaper in Japan. Just get on the internet and get a news fix. Sometimes I just buy the paper from a stand if there's a particularly interesting headline, or if they have a feature that I want to read. Frankly, I like the Japan Times more for its editorial/analysis section than for it's news.

[Taro Toporific]

...Sometimes I just buy the paper from a stand if there's a particularly interesting... I like the Japan Times more for its editorial/analysis section than for it's news.

The Japan Times has only one real use: the Monday morning crap shoot:lol: that is, the job ads.

[GuyJean]

WTF is the deal this Japanese shimbun no hi /newspaper holiday?

I was told it was to give the poor, little delivery boys a break..

But I think it's because Japan thinks no news is good news. Back to that ignorance is bliss thingy..

GJ