Asia/English-language media outlets

IHT: Asia's English readers miss in-depth media

"A host of new English-language media outlets has sprung up around Asia in recent years to try to fill the void."

Japan/Newspaper readership

The Japan Times Online: Readership of newspapers dips slightly: survey

"A survey shows that 92.5 percent of the public reads newspapers, on average 5.6 days a week. The finding apparently reflects Japanese people's continued confidence in conventional print media, though the rate of readership is down from 94.5 percent in the previous survey in 2003."