The Japan Times Media Advisory Board members who have been monitoring the newspapers' reporting met Nov. 18 to discuss progress from the previous board meetings and offer advice for the future.

The November meeting at The Japan Times' headquarters in Tokyo was the last of the four meetings held since the four members were appointed in November 2013 to give feedback to the newspaper, which has a wide variety of readers in and outside Japan.

In the first part of the meeting, the advisers offered views on stories that stood out for them in good ways and bad over the past six months.