Abstract
Under the Abe administration, the government has shown a stronger confrontation with the mass media. On the mass media side, the number of audiences is decreasing. Based on these situations, there is concern that mass media reports will become more partisan and lose the forum function of providing opportunities for access to diverse opinions and information. From this perspective, this paper analyzed the political coverages of Japanese national newspapers and discussed what issues were raised under the Abe administration and what kind of tone these reports had. As a result, it became clear that various policy issues were discussed during the period of the second Abe administration, and that the difference between the positive and negative tones among the newspapers increased during the same period. From these results, it was shown that how to provide a place to access various information is a future issue.
