Launched in February 2003, the newspaper is credited for pioneering citizen journalism in Japan.
However, there were different windows for registering depending on the nationality or ethnicity of the potential poster (i.e. a different one for "Foreigners" (外国の方) and Japanese).
[2] Due a lack of revenue, the newspaper ceased publication at the end of March 2010.
In May of the same year, it was replaced by a journalistic blog named JanJanBlog, which was operated until 31 December 2013.
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