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Japan Times as a company is actually quite big. They are additionally known for publishing Japanese learning materials, with their most famous being Genki and their Dictionary of Japanese Grammar series. Pretty much every weeb has at least attempted to read Genki 1, before giving up because they find learning Japanese from anime to be much easier.I think alot of people are putting Japan Times on too high of a pedestal.
A few people on twitter who know people in japan or live in japan themselves don't really consider it a huge professional publication. Most either haven't heard of it or if they have it's a "only the American people there read it and it turned to garbage since 2015" It seems to be written by Americans and only read by an American audience and harshely criticizes Japanese culture in a "your country is a bunch of sexists" type of way which makes me doubt any Japanese people really read it at all.
The only thing really making it Japanese at all is that it's owned by a Japanese company that just enables their behavior and takes place in Japan, it really just seems like a BuzzFeed wannabe that is only keeping its head above water because it's the only English written paper there that Americans can read
As for their newspaper division, it is indeed geared towards expats, but I think it’s a bit erroneous to say it’s not well known. It’s the largest and oldest English-language publication in Japan. Rather than Buzzfeed, I would compare it closer to The Wallstreet Journal, but for foreigners, in how it was once reputable in the past, but has now started catering to socjus idiots in recent years. They still post decent articles for the most part though since most of their expats are still middle-aged white guys and not danger haired wahmen. Thankfully, Japan doesn’t give a shit about diversity hires like the US does.
At any rate, I don’t really care about their article on Vic as it’s a hit piece at best. I was just merely pointing out a potential connection between their writers and Amelia Cook, since they did an article on her in the past and she was somewhat involved with the early stages of kickvic.