Fourth interview : Print Media

 Topic: Print Media

Interviewer; Yutaro

 Interviewee; My grandparents, Yoshiaki (88 years old) and Takako (83 years old) from Japan

Hello, today I am going to talk about Print media. With my interview, I could find some differences between now and the past. 

When it comes to newspapers, they were common at my grandparents' childhood. As they are delivered in these days, there is the same system of delivery services for newspapers. 

My grandfather likes to read it about sumou which is one of Japanese traditional sports. That is similar to wrestling.

Sumo, Japan's National Sport - Kipling & Clark (kiplingandclark.com)

We have this sport from the past time, so it is one of the favorite and unchangeable sport for him. When my grandparents were child, the only platform that they could get information was radio and newspapers. Thus, newspaper is definitely important for their life.

As another platform of print media, I mentioned to books. However, my grandparents do not get used to reading books. When they are young, books are still expensive. Instead of books, there are paper platform for children called Kamisibai.

2012年12月号 遊亀公園の紙芝居 - マチコレ！表紙のスケッチ (machikore.com)

　Like this picture, some children gather at one place and one adult read the story. This is the most common way to show the story to children. Even though books are expensive, children can reach some stories with Kamisibai. Even at school, they cannot reach books. According to my grandparents, the culture of books have spread after 10 years from WWⅡ.

I asked them what the differences are from now. 

They mentioned to the amounts of pages. The number of pages has increased because of visual aids, which helps them to imagine what the contents are. Also, newspaper have got some advertisements. My grandparents complained to it;

"I can find some attractiveness from advertisements and the internet encourages us to buy them. That's why I spend too much money for them."

Comparing to the past time, the online service for the newspapers is available. However, my grandparents are already old to read online letters. That is why they prefer to read it with paper platform.