For those who want to know how to bypass Nikkei Asia paywall to read articles for free, then check out the various methods mentioned below.
Nikkei Asia featured news stories on business, markets, tech and politics of Japan, China, Southeast Asia and India.
If I am not wrong, it offers one free article each month, and if you want to continue reading you have to subscribe.
For those who just want to browse through Nikkei Asia website, to read its digital content occasionally, then check out the following ways how to get around Nikkei Asia paywall.
How to bypass Nikkei Asia paywall
- Clear browsing data, cache and cookies
- Google cache pages
- Bypass Paywalls Clean extension
The following methods to bypass Nikkei Asia paywall work for both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers.
I have tried them out myself, and at the time of publishing this post, all the tips below work perfectly.
1. Clear browsing data, cache and cookies
When you come to the blocked article, go to "History" to Clear browsing data and cookies (Firefox) or Delete browsing data (Chrome).
After clearing the data and cookies, reload the page.
Now the paywalled article should appear in full.
At the bottom of the article, you would see the remark: "This is the last free article this month".
Then followed with a pop-up asking you to subscribe to its newsletters.
Just close it, and continue to read the free Nikkei Asia article.
To read the next locked-out article, again clear the browsing data and cookies, and then reload the page.
2. Google cached pages
You can read the all the Nikkei Asia articles which are available from the Google cached pages.
This is what you do:
When you come to the blocked asia.Nikkei.com article, go to the browser address bar at the top of the page.
Add cache: in front of the article URL.
For example the article URL is:
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/Southeast-Asia-pushes-back-on-cheap-Chinese-imports
After adding cache: to the URL, it looks like this:
cache:https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/Southeast-Asia-pushes-back-on-cheap-Chinese-imports
Press on the "Enter" key, and it would take you to the Google cached page.
Now you can read the full article without being blocked by its paywall.
3. Bypass Paywalls Clean extension
Install this popular browser extension, you can access all news stories for free without signing up an account with Nikkei Asia website.
For Firefox, refer to this tutorial: How to install Bypass Paywalls Clean extension for Firefox
For Chrome, refer to this tutorial: How to install Bypass Paywalls Clean extension for Chrome
You can use any of these methods to bypass Nikkei Asia paywalls.
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