JAPANESE JOURNALISM.
• - Prior to- the yejar 1862 there was not a single newspaper published in the Empire : of Japan. In those day?, whenerer an event of apecial importance occurred an accoufit of it was printed in a small pamphlet, and that answered every purpose for ihV jtjuiet,' contented and happy people. TJ^' total number of reßular iourhals now Japan is about 200; of these pnlyseTen are printed in English, and of the last number named, six are British orfi^riai v< and- bne' lof them alone is purely m^ricari'iti' its ■•proclivities. In view of tfie! ifabt that native 'papers "are not read' out of Japan, it follows, &a a natural con--Beqttence7"that much the larger part of what is sent abroad to influence public opinion is^iTf^ly English, in its .inception and purposes. Whenever the* English residents in Japan, Have been hard pushed for" arguments to defend their untenable policy, they; have resorted to the publication of untruthful paragraph* calculated to thrqwdiscrediton the Japanese.—rPorney'a 'Pio^ieai. '. '•'"."' ' ' ',' ',"''"."'' '"; '.','!
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3173, 21 April 1879, Page 3
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162JAPANESE JOURNALISM. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3173, 21 April 1879, Page 3
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