The newspaper is popular not only in Japan, with 61.11% readership, but even in countries like Thailand, Germany, UK, the US, India, Madagascar and Trinidad and Tobago.
Trishit Banerjee got admission into Japan's Tohoku University last year to study advanced molecular chemistry. And now, this youngster from Ulhasnagar is teaching the Japanese to read English by bringing out this age-old university's first online English campus newspaper.
Founded in 1907, Tohoku University is more than 100 years old and is highly sought-after by students who wish to pursue academic research. However, ever since it was founded, the university has only had a Japanese campus newspaper and never an English one.
But Trishit (18) has changed that. He came up with a completely English newspaper, Sentinel, which is published twice a month on popular demand. It is the first English language newspaper at Tohoku University and at present is the only English language newspaper amongst all the seven national universities of Japan.
"Launched on May 21, 2016, it was planned as a monthly newspaper, but with an increase in the number of writers, we will publish it twice a month from this month onwards," Trishit said from Japan. The paper, which is an online newspaper, will be published on the 6th and 21st of every month.
The newspaper is popular not only in Japan, with 61.11% readership, but even in countries like Thailand, Germany, UK, the US, India, Madagascar and Trinidad and Tobago.
Besides supporting a revival of the local economy and tourism, which were badly affected due to the earthquake and tsunami of 2011, the paper also engages Japanese students who wish to learn English. "We have a 'Language Corner' to help Japanese students learn English and are including writings on exchange programmes in order to support them in the process," Trishit said.
As Tohoku University is considered to be an age-old university and information on it is hardly available in English, Prof Manabu Nakagawa will write an English column in the paper on the history of the university. He was one of the editors of a series of 11 books accounting for 9,500+ pages on the history of the Tohoku University in Japanese.
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