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Japanese newspapers (新聞 "shinbun"), similar to their worldwide counterparts, run the gamut from general news-oriented papers to special interest newspapers devoted to economics, sports, literature, industry, and trade. Newspapers are circulated either nationally, by region (such as Kantō or Kansai), by prefecture, or by city. Some newspapers publish as often as two times a day (morning and evening editions) while others publish weekly, monthly, quarterly, or even yearly. The three leading national daily newspapers in Japan are the Asahi shimbun, the Yomiuri shimbun, and the Mainichi shimbun. U.S. Economic Calendar Economics at the Open Directory Project Economics textbooks on Wikibooks The Economists Economics A-Z Daily analysis of economics in the news (UK focus) Institutions and organizations Bureau of Labor Statistics - from the American Labor Department Center for Economic and Policy Research (USA) National Bureau...
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The Kansai (Japanese: 関西) region of Japan, also known as the Kinki region (近畿地方, Kinki-chihÅ), lies in the middle of Japans main island, Honshu. ...
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Yomiuri-TOKYO Office Yomiuri YC The Yomiuri Shimbun (èªå£²æ–°èž) is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities. ...
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Brief History
Japanese newspapers began in the 17th century as yomiuri (読売、literally "to read and sell") or kawaraban (瓦版, literally "tile-block printing" referring to the use of clay printing blocks), which were printed handbills sold in major cities to commemorate major social gatherings or events. The folder of newspaper web offset printing press Printing is an industrial process for production of texts and images, typically with ink on paper using a printing press. ...
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The first modern newspaper was the Nagasaki Shipping List and Advertiser, which was published bi-weekly by the Englishman A. W. Hansard. In November of the same year, Hansard moved the paper to Yokohama and renamed it as the Japan Herald. In 1862, the Tokugawa shogunate began publishing the Kampan batabiya shimbun, a translated edition of a widely-distributed Dutch government newspaper. These two papers were published for foreigners, and contained only foreign news. The first Japanese daily newspaper that covered foreign and domestic news was the Yokohama mainichi shimbun, first published in 1871. Modern can simply mean something that is up-to-date, trendy, new, or from the present time. ...
Megane-bashi (Spectacles Bridge) Nagasaki ▶(?) (長崎市; -shi, literally long peninsula) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture. ...
Japans tallest building, the Landmark Tower, is in the Minato Mirai 21 district of Yokohama. ...
Newspapers at this time can be divided into two types, Ōshimbun (大新聞, "large newspapers") and koshimbun (小新聞, "small newspapers"). People commonly referred to Ōshimbun as "political forums" because these papers were inextricably tied to the Popular Rights Movement (自由民権運動, "Jiyū minken undō") and its demands for establishing a Diet. After the government's official announcement of the formation of the Diet, these newspapers, such as the Yokohama mainichi shimbun and the Chūgai shimbun, became organs of the political parties. The early readers of these newspapers mostly came from the ranks of the former samurai class. Diet may mean: In nutrition: Diet (nutrition), the sum of the food consumed by an organism or group. ...
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Koshimbun, on the other hand, were more plebian, popular newspapers that contained local news, human interest stories, and light fiction. Examples of koshimbun were the Tokyo nichinichi shimbun, the predecessor of the present day Mainichi shimbun, which began in 1872; the Yomiuri shimbun, which began in 1874; and the Asahi shimbun, which began in 1879. In the 1880s, government pressure led to a gradual weeding out of Ōshimbun, and the koshimbun started becoming more similar to the modern, "impartial" newspapers. View of Tokyos Shibuya district Long a symbol of Tokyo, the Nijubashi Bridge at the Kokyo Imperial Palace. ...
Throughout their history, Japanese newspapers have had a central role in issues of free speech and freedom of the press. In the period of "Taishō Democracy" in the 1910s to the 1920s, the government worked to suppress newspapers such as the Asahi shimbun for their critical stance against government bureaucracy that favored protecting citizens' rights and constitutional democracy. In the period of growing militarism to the outbreak of total war in the 1930s to the 1940s, newspapers faced intense government censorship and control. After Japan's defeat, strict censorship of the press continued as the American occupiers used government control in order to inculcate democratic and anti-communist values. In 1951, the American occupiers finally returned freedom of the press to Japan, which is the situation today. Freedom of speech is the right to freely say what one pleases, as well as the related right to hear what others have stated. ...
Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government of free public speech for its citizens and their associations, extended to members of news gathering organizations, and their published reporting. ...
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Historical Reproductions of Japanese Newspapers Listed below is an overview of reproductions of the three major Japanese daily newspapers, the Yomiuri shimbun, the Asahi shimbun, and the Mainichi shimbun.
These historical newspapers are available in three major forms, as CD-ROMs, as microfilm, and as shukusatsuban (縮刷版, literally, "reduced-sized print editions"), which is a technology popularized by Asahi shimbun in the 1930s as a way to compress and archive newspapers by reducing the size of the print to fit multiple pages of a daily newspaper onto one page. "Shukusatsuban" are catered towards libraries and archives, and are usually organized and released by month. The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
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These resources are available at many leading research universities throughout the world (usually universities with reputable Japanese studies programs). One will need to check each individual library's collection for information about the availability of these sources. Eureka [1] and/or WorldCat [[2]] are good starting points (password required). Eureka (or Heureka; Greek ) is a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes, see: Eureka (word). ...
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Yomiuri shimbun In 1999, the Yomiuri shimbun released a CD-ROM titled "The Yomiuri shimbun in the Meiji Era," which provides a searchable index of news articles and images from the period. Subsequent CD-ROMs, "The Taisho Era," "The prewar Showa Era I" and "The prewar Showa era II," were completed eight years after the project was first conceived. "Postwar Recovery," the first part of a postwar Showa Era series that includes newspaper stories and images until 1960, is forthcoming. Issues of Yomiuri shimbun printed since 1998 are also available as an online resource through Lexis-Nexis Academic. The CD-ROM (an abbreviation for Compact Disc Read-Only Memory (ROM)) is a non-volatile optical data storage medium using the same physical format as audio compact discs, readable by a computer with a CD-ROM drive. ...
History of Japan Paleolithic Jomon Yayoi Yamato period ---Kofun period ---Asuka period Nara period Heian period Kamakura period Muromachi period Azuchi-Momoyama period ---Nanban period Edo period Meiji period Taisho period Showa period ---Japanese expansionism ---Occupied Japan ---Post-Occupation Japan Heisei The Meiji period (Japanese: Meiji Jidai 明治時代 ) (1868–1912...
History of Japan Paleolithic Jomon Yayoi Yamato period ---Kofun period ---Asuka period Nara period Heian period Kamakura period Muromachi period Azuchi-Momoyama period ---Nanban period Edo period Meiji period Taisho period Showa period ---Japanese expansionism ---Occupied Japan ---Post-Occupation Japan Heisei The Taisho period (大正 Taishō, lit. ...
Hirohito (裕仁), the Shōwa Emperor (昭和天皇), (April 29, 1901 - January 7, 1989) reigned over Japan from 1926 to 1989. ...
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Asahi shimbun The Asahi shimbun has a CD-ROM database consisting of an index of headlines and sub-headlines from the years 1945-1999. A much more expensive full-text searchable database is available only at the Harvard-Yenching Library at Harvard University, which notably includes advertisements in its index. Researchers using other university libraries would probably have to first use the CD-ROM index, and then look into the microfilm or shukusatsuban versions. Microfilm versions are available from 1888; shukusatsuban versions are available from 1931. Issues of the Asahi shimbun printed since August, 1984 are available through Lexis-Nexis Academic. Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ...
Mainichi shimbun Microfilm versions of the Mainichi shimbun are available for the years 1984-2005, and shukusatsuban are available from 1950-1983. Issues of the Mainichi shimbun printed since March 27, 1998 are available through Factiva. Mainichi-Osaka Office Mainichi-News Port Mainichi Newspapers Settsu factory (A high-speed offset company factory is included. ...
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