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What Attitude Did the Japanese News Media Take toward the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games? Sentiment Analysis of the Japanese Newspapers

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  • Annaka, Susumu
  • Hara, Taketo

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This paper examines using text analysis what attitude the Japanese news media took toward the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. It explores whether there is a difference in tones among the Japanese major newspaper articles. The newspapers analyzed here are the morning editions of Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, and Yomiuri Shimbun, three top-selling newspapers in Japan. This study utilizes the list of semantic orientations of words to capture the attitudes of the newspapers toward the game. It found that liberal papers regarded as negative to holding the Olympics do not consistently show negative attitudes toward the game. There was a clear difference in attitudes among newspapers only in sports articles after the Olympics began. This article is the first research on the relationship between the Japanese news media and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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  • Annaka, Susumu & Hara, Taketo, 2021. "What Attitude Did the Japanese News Media Take toward the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games? Sentiment Analysis of the Japanese Newspapers," OSF Preprints k4bc2, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:osfxxx:k4bc2
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/k4bc2
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