The Justice Ministry is moving toward revising Japan's anti-prostitution law to punish the sex buyers, addressing a legal imbalance that has only targeted the sellers for 70 years, according to government sources.
Looks like the paper is one of Japan’s biggest, on the level of NYT in the US so it makes sense. If they have very large circulation the domain is probably worth more for them to distribute content then it is to a beer company where the website matters far less. Like unless there’s some promotion going on why would you go to a beer companies website?
What do you mean? Asahi shinbun is a big news company in Japan and they probably grabbed the domain way before the beer company would have even needed a website.
It’s not the newspaper, but interestingly enough drink companies don’t bother hiding their connection to alcohol the same way they would in eg the US. Asahi also produces all sorts of soft drinks like teas and sodas and the Asahi branding is prominent. Maybe this is common in some places but for the US it’d feel like having ads for “delicious Budweiser cola”.
Is that true? That makes more sense then, actually! I thought they somehow resisted what I’m sure would be persistent high-priced offers to buy the domain from one of the largest beverage holding groups in Asia.
Haha! Though they were probably more of a patriot than a drunk: Japan is the land of the rising sun, after all!
And by that I mean that the name of the country (in Japanese) literally means “origin of the sun”, and that the emperor is traditionally considered a direct descendant of the sun goddess.
This is what i was told once upon a time. But upon actual research it sadly appears not. At least the newspaper is not on the list of properties of the asahi holdings that owns the beer company. (for some reason i am not able to paste the link onypjone)
Amazing that this news org is able to hold onto asahi.com in the modern era
Looks like the paper is one of Japan’s biggest, on the level of NYT in the US so it makes sense. If they have very large circulation the domain is probably worth more for them to distribute content then it is to a beer company where the website matters far less. Like unless there’s some promotion going on why would you go to a beer companies website?
What do you mean? Asahi shinbun is a big news company in Japan and they probably grabbed the domain way before the beer company would have even needed a website.
even more amazing that the news vorp belongs to the beermaker of the same name
Efit: This actually doesnt appear to be true :(
It’s not the newspaper, but interestingly enough drink companies don’t bother hiding their connection to alcohol the same way they would in eg the US. Asahi also produces all sorts of soft drinks like teas and sodas and the Asahi branding is prominent. Maybe this is common in some places but for the US it’d feel like having ads for “delicious Budweiser cola”.
Is that true? That makes more sense then, actually! I thought they somehow resisted what I’m sure would be persistent high-priced offers to buy the domain from one of the largest beverage holding groups in Asia.
TBF, “Asahi” is a better name for a newspaper than for a brewery 😅 (It means “morning sun” in Japanese)
TIL Asahi was named by an epic alcoholic I guess.
Haha! Though they were probably more of a patriot than a drunk: Japan is the land of the rising sun, after all!
And by that I mean that the name of the country (in Japanese) literally means “origin of the sun”, and that the emperor is traditionally considered a direct descendant of the sun goddess.
This is what i was told once upon a time. But upon actual research it sadly appears not. At least the newspaper is not on the list of properties of the asahi holdings that owns the beer company. (for some reason i am not able to paste the link onypjone)