Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso expressed antipathy toward newspapers in a speech on Sunday in Shibata, Niigata Prefecture.
"It is clear that people in their teens, 20s and early 30s are the generations that least read newspapers," he said. "All of those who do not read newspapers [support] the Liberal Democratic Party. It'd be better to avoid cooperating with newspapers through subscriptions."
Referring to a tendency in recent elections where the LDP's support rate among young voters has been high, Aso seems to have been expressing dissatisfaction with newspapers, many of which have been critical of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Cabinet.
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