Yahoo Japan!: The 20 most clicked stories for 2008!

This year has been an interesting one. It has been a mixed bag full of different news, good and bad ones. To review what happened thru the year especially in Japan, Yahoo! J published the list of the 20 most clicked stories from their visitors.

All data collected are from headlines that were displayed between November 1st, 2007 and October 31st, 2008 (Halloween!) It is interesting to see that most of the news unfortunately are death or suicide related, and the rest of it are entertainment news that includes weddings, embarrasing declarations etc.

Rank	Story	Source	Date
1	Ex-TBS announcer Ako Kawada commits suicide	Sankei Sports	26th May 2008
2	Akihabara devil, sacking and misunderstanding?	Sankei Sports	9th June 2008
3	Hoshino JAPAN to play USA in 3rd-place play-off at Olympics	Daily Sports	22nd August 2008
4	Three missing in Kagawa – brother-in-law arrested	Sankei Digital	27th November 2007
5	Kumi Koda tearfully speaks from her heart	Mainichi Shimbun	7th February 2008
6	Mona Yamamoto, Beat Takeshi disgraced	Sankei Sports	11th July 2008
7	Motomura’s press conference “Correct ruling”	Mainichi Shimbun	22nd April 2008
8	Third Sailor Moon voice acress Miyuki Kobe dies suddenly (no link)	Sankei Digital	21st June 2008
9	Anna Tsuchiya’s ex-husband dead	Sports News	24th May 2008
10	Kohaku (Red and White) Song Contest line-up announced	Oricon	4th December 2007
11	Capital Punishment: Minister of Justice “Will study with caution”	Sankei Digital	17th June 2008
12	Why did the devoted mother kill her primary school child?	Sankei Digital	22nd September 2008
13	Objections raised to advertisement encouraging infidelity, advert banned (no link)	Sankei Digital	18th January 2008
14	Joe Odagiri and Yuu Kashii marry	eiga.com	27th December 2007
15	Senba Kitcho president heartbroken	Sankei Digital	28th May 2008
16	Shinji Yamashita’s eldest son commits suicide	Sankei Digital	18th March 2008
17	Ken Ogata dies of liver cancer	Daily Sports	7th October 2008
18	Leah Dizon marriage press conference – turbulent mood	Sankei Digital	15th October 2008
19	Kosuke Kitajima – ran out of energy towards the end	Sports News	11th August 2008
20	Chinatsu Wakatsuki quits entertainment world	Oricon	27th November 2007

The website “What Japan thinks” translated the headlines and link them to the different sites that covered the news in english. The original results are in Yahoo Japan!

I really like ” What Japan thinks” website because most of the posts there are surveys translated in english and all data is about…well, ” What Japanese people thinks”  Take a visit there sometime.

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