Many armed forces have official newspapers, such as the "Stars and Stripes" in the United States and the "Red Star" in Russia, and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces also have such an official newspaper, which is called "Chaoyun."
Functionally speaking, "Chaoyun" is the Japanese version of the "Stars and Stripes" and is an important platform for the Self-Defense Forces to carry out ideological education and training. "Chaoyun" is one of the main news products of Chaoyun News Agency, Chaoyun News also publishes "Self-Defense Forces Equipment Yearbook" every year, I believe that many military fans are no strangers to this kind of reference book, quality, typesetting is relatively high, in the 2017-2018 edition has been absorbed into F-35A, A**-7 and other new equipment.
The means of ideological education and training in Haizi are mainly lectures by external lecturers, worship of the dead, ritual education, and visits to various memorial halls, while newspapers are a more frequent one. "Chaoyun" adopts a traditional vertical version, and the title is written in Chinese characters. In terms of content, in addition to publishing hot news in the surrounding area to provide information for self-defense officers, the main content of "Chaoyun" is defense policy, high-level activities of the Self-Defense Forces, personnel changes, troop training trends, equipment trends, and highlighting the stories of self-defense officers, so as to motivate and educate self-defense officers and enhance their professional identity. In addition, the dynamics of activities between Japan and the United States are also an important aspect.
At the same time, "Chaoyun" also published a large number of soft news, including military band performances, opening to the outside world, public experience activities, new weapons introduction, etc., in recent years, it has been carrying out a large number of reports on female self-defense officers, and organizing beauty pageant reports on air girls and sea women. This kind of news is mainly aimed at local people, so as to achieve the purpose of publicizing the Self-Defense Forces, influencing potential people to join the Self-Defense Forces, and solving the recruitment problem of the Self-Defense Forces.
In terms of layout, "Chaoyun" uses a large number of **, and important news likes to use very large headlines, which is very visually impactful. In terms of content, "Chaoyun" is also very open in scale, including publishing news that makes neighboring countries uncomfortable, such as visiting the Huitian Memorial Hall. "Huitian" is a man-operated torpedo developed by the old Japanese Navy at the end of World War II, and it is a ** equipment similar to kamikaze attack aircraft. As for the new JSM supersonic anti-ship missile that the outside world is concerned about, "Chaoyun" has reported on it at great length, and adopted the subtitle of the launch of the enemy's defense circle.
In terms of length, most of the news covering the SDF units is short-lived, and the news style is used. In the choice of words and sentences, "Chaoyun" is also quite distinctive. For example, in the Xi language of "Chaoyun", the word "enemy" has not been shy about it, and it is a high-frequency word in the title, such as "coordinated attack ship training when the enemy invades", which is very straightforward.
Among the military newspapers of various countries in the world, the most peculiar thing about "Chaoyun" is that it is not **, but a weekly magazine, published every Thursday, 50 times a year, of which 8 editions are 32 times, and 12 editions are 18 times. The shortcomings of the weekly newspaper are obvious, that is, the timeliness is poor, and the lack of in-depth reporting of "Chaoyun" makes it more accurate for such a newspaper to be positioned as an ideological and educational product.
What's even more strange is that the different layouts also lead to the newspaper ** is not unified throughout the year, the normal 8 pages of the newspaper is 1 copy of 140 yen (8 yuan) + shipping 60 yen (3 yuan), a newspaper costs 9 yuan. The 12th edition is 170 yen + shipping 68 yen per serving, and 13 yuan per serving.
If you subscribe to a year-round edition of "Chaoyun", it will cost a total of 9,710 yen, which is about 573 yuan, and the average newspaper is 10 yuan. Just rush this**,Otaku will definitely choose to buy genuine CDs!