Abstract
We conducted content analysis of articles published in Yomiuri and Asahi Shimbun to articulate how Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs)were portrayed in newspaper in Japan. Since 2015 till the end of 2019, a total of 465 and 1,005 articles were published in Yomiuri and Asahi Shimbun respectively. Less than 10 articles were published in 2015 and 2016 for Yomiuri Shimbun, however it increased to 295 articles in 2019. In Asahi Shimbun, less than 20 articles were published in 2015 and 2016, however, it increased to 546 articles in 2019. As for the contents, the articles published in 2015 and 2016 in both Yomiuri and Asahi Shimbun were mostly about international actions such as how SDGs were adopted by United Nations, however, since 2018, more articles were about events and activities related to SDGs implemented in local areas of Japan. Increase of newspaper articles on SDGs implies that media reported SDGs as important agenda that readers should know, and this could also have affected to increase public awareness and interests toward this topic.
