March 6 is Sport Newspaper Day in Japan and it celebrates the day when the first paper specialized in sport news was published in 1946.
According to Saisun [1], the first Japanese sport newspaper ever published was Nikkan Sports [2], four pages with an illustration of a baseball hurler on the first page.
Japan: Sport Newspaper Day
· Written by Scilla Alecci
Categories: East Asia, Japan, Citizen Media, History, Media & Journalism, Sport