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Whither thou goest, terebi ? Today | 09:25 am JST TOKYO
The arrival of television in Japan was not welcomed by everyone. In the Feb 2, 1957 issue of the long-defunct magazine Shukan Tokyo, a famous journalist and critic named Soichi Oya set off a storm of debate when he wrote, The most evolved mass media, radio and television, can be said to deploying a campaign to transform Japan s entire 100 million into imbeciles.
If Oya was correct almost 65 years ago, might Japan s younger generation now be showing signs that they re becoming smarter? Nikkan Gendai (July 15) reported that when NHK released its 2020 survey on how people spend their time, while around 80% of Japanese replied that yes, they watch television on a daily basis, over half of the respondents in their teens and 20s said they had stopped watching TV.