Hi, I'm looking for interesting, not too difficult, periodicals to subscribe to in Japan.

I live so deep in the middle of nowhere that I have no access to a book store/ konbini to browse titles.

I am interested in general Japanese culture, travel, onsen, social justice, human rights, reading, news and current affairs (a weekly/monthly newspaper would be nice - daily is too often) and science. (I am not interested in fashion or sport)

They can be aimed at kids/teenagers or not-too-difficult adult titles.

Something like Hiragana Times minus the English and furigana would be ideal!

Any recommendations?

You can find some subscriptions here: http://www.jlist.com/category/194, but I'm afraid the selection is mostly limited to anime/fashion genre.

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ashman63 Wrote:I am interested in general Japanese culture, travel, onsen, social justice, human rights, reading, news and current affairs (a weekly/monthly newspaper would be nice - daily is too often) and science. (I am not interested in fashion or sport)

Every 'weekly' newspaper I could find (Japan Times Weekly, Nikkei Weekly) was in English. There should be something for natives that you could subscribe to; although, you could just use the newspaper websites instead.

I would look online.

This might be good for browsing: http://jp.zinio.com/www/browse/shop.jsp

ashman63 Wrote:I live so deep in the middle of nowhere that I have no access to a book store/ konbini to browse titles.

Haha, how far are you from the nearest book store/konbini?

I lived in a town with no train station, book store, or konbini, for a little while, but I went to civilization as frequently as I could. (I also, incidentally, had an outhouse, owned a lot of leftover farm equipment in my three farming sheds, etc.--life is weird sometimes) Take a vacation to civilization and go to a book store!

Thanks everyone for your input!

Those two links for browsing look promising.

If anyone's interested, I have come across a weekly shinbun aimed at chuugakusei、ｗhich looks pretty good (quite challenging):

http://www.asagaku.com/shogakusei.html


@Tzadeck
The konbini is about 20min away so not really that bad - but they don't have that much reading material. The nearest bookstore is about an hour away, but I don't have a car, so it involves a very infrequent train, meaning I can't just go and come back, I have to organise my whole day around the bloody trains It's really not that bad though...I live in the beautiful inaka, surrounded by beautiful ocean and forested mountains. No complaints :-)