The images of Japan in the Turkish print media on Cumhuriyet daily newspaper in 1930s have been discussed in this paper. Accordingly the Turkish-Japanese relation in the first era of the Turkish Republic under Ataturk’s administration will be enlightened from the perspective of print media. Cumhuriyet has been used as a primary source. Books and academic articles related to the Japanese history and the Turkish print media have also been utilized as secondary sources. Subjects, mostly related to Japan in Cumhuriyet are as followings: - Chinese-Japanese Relations - Soviet Russian-Japanese Relations - Japanese Home Politics - Japanese Interest to Central Asia - Japanese Army To summarize our analysis on Cumhuriyet, there were two points of views regarding Japan in 1930s: 1) Pan-Turkist contributors, such as Muharrem Feyzi Togay, Ahmed Agaoğlu, tried to reflect Japan as a country whose expansion policy was different from the Western countries and tended to justify the Japanese military movements. 2) Yunus Nadi, who was a reformist and Kemalist, criticized strictly Japan and its expansionist policy in East Asia and stepped up for China. Nadir Nadi and Peyami Safa were also critical of Japan, but not as much as Yunus Nadi. In conclusion, it is possible to say that Pan-Turkists in the Turkish Republic of 1930s had affinity to Japan. But those, who were closer to the government and Kemalist ideology, was hands-off attitude and partially critical.