Does anybody know where to find a list of the most frequent words used in news papers?

http://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/nihongo/wordfreq_ck.gz

Thanks alot for posting that but my computer can't read it for some reason(It can ussually read japanese and type in it)
is it possible that theres another source with that information in a different format or a program I can install on my computer in order to be able to read that code?

Save the file, and open in Word

There was a thread about this a little while back:
Why not use frequency lists for 80% coverage?

The document uses EUC-JP encoding, which is a unix standard and may not be present on windows computers. Firefox uncompresses and displays the file perfectly on linux. I was also able to download and view it with OpenOffice, although I had to tell the program what encoding to use. (Firefox detected that automatically.)

So how do I use linux or Openoffice? I'm really shit with computers sorry

that list is daunting and boring. It's 1000x more fun to actually mine the vocab from the news. So long as you've done something like KO or core6000 you'll be alright and it gets easier after a few months.