Editing Aomori Prefecture (section)

==Media==
The largest newspaper by readership in Aomori Prefecture is ''[[The Tōō Nippō Press]]'' with a daily readership of 245,000, 56% of the total share of the newspaper market in the prefecture.<ref>{{cite web |title=Company listing |url=https://www.toonippo.co.jp/list/company/list/english/ |work=The Tōō Nippō Press |access-date=20 May 2020 |archive-date=14 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200814015231/https://www.toonippo.co.jp/list/company/list/english/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The newspaper also runs a radio news station which is broadcast by the [[Aomori Broadcasting Corporation]] (RAB).<ref>{{cite web |title=Media |url=http://www.rab-service.co.jp/media.html |publisher=Aomori Broadcasting Corporation |language=ja |access-date=12 October 2020}}</ref> Other local newspapers are Hachinohe's ''The Daily Tōhoku Shimbun'',<ref>{{cite web |title=会社概要 |trans-title=Company profile |url=https://www.daily-tohoku.company/guide-overview |publisher=The Daily Tōhoku Shimbun |language=ja |access-date=12 October 2020}}</ref> Hirosaki's ''[[Mutsu Shimpo]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Information |url=http://www.mutusinpou.co.jp/company/company.html |publisher=The Mutsu Shimpo |language=ja |date=2020 |access-date=12 October 2020}}</ref> and Kuroishi's ''Tsugaru Shinpō''.<ref>{{cite web |title=会社概要 |trans-title=Company profile |url=http://www.shinpou.jp/gaiyou.htm |language=ja |access-date=12 October 2020 |archive-date=10 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810224400/http://www.shinpou.jp/gaiyou.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Four television stations are broadcast in Aomori Prefecture. RAB is a television and radio broadcaster based in the capital that is affiliated with the [[Japan Radio Network]], [[National Radio Network (Japan)|National Radio Network]], and [[Nippon News Network]]. RAB uses the call signs JOGR-DTV for digital television broadcasts and JOGE, JOGO, and JOGR for radio broadcasts in Hirosaki, Hachinohe, and Aomori, respectively. [[Japan News Network]]'s affiliate, [[Aomori Television]] began broadcasting with the call sign JOAI on 1 December 1969. [[Asahi Broadcasting Aomori]]. [[NHK]] broadcasts radio, television, and digital television from NHK Aomori with the call signs JOTC and JOTG. NHK radio services began on 17 April 1941, while television broadcasts commenced on 22 March 1959.<ref name="RAB"/>

[[Hani Motoko]], a native of Hachinohe, is considered to be Japan's first female journalist. She became known for her column about famous Japanese women that began publication in 1897 in the ''[[Sports Hochi|Hōchi Shimbun]]''. Motoko later started a journal, that focused on the values of middle-class women.<ref name="Motoko">{{cite journal |author=B. Winston Kahn |title=Hani Motoko and the Education of Japanese Women |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24449975 |publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]] |journal=The Historian |volume=59 |number=2 |pages=391–401 |date=1997 |jstor=24449975 |access-date=6 October 2020}}</ref>