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Chōsen Shinbun
was a Japanese-language daily newspaper published in Korea from 1908 to 1942. It was merged from the ''Chōsen Shinpō (Incheon), Chōsen Shinpō'' and the ''Chōsen Times'', and later merged into the ''Keijō Nippō'' by order of the Governor-General of Chōsen, Japanese colonial government. The newspaper was seen as among the three top Japanese-language newspapers in Korea during the Japanese colonial period, along with ''Keijō Nippō'' and ''Fuzan Nippō.'' Digital copies of most issues are now available across several different services in South Korea and Japan. The Korean Newspaper Archive has copies of the newspaper from January 1924 to February 1942, and the National Institute of Korean History has copies between December 1908 to March 1921. The Japanese National Diet Library also holds copies of the paper.'''' History The newspaper formed via a merger between two Incheon-based Japanese newspapers: the ''Chōsen Shinpō (Incheon), Chōsen Shinpō'' and the ''Chōsen T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Language
is spoken natively by about 128 million people, primarily by Japanese people and primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language. Japanese belongs to the Japonic or Japanese- Ryukyuan language family. There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu, Austroasiatic, Koreanic, and the now-discredited Altaic, but none of these proposals has gained widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), there was a massive influx of Sino-Japanese vocabulary into the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese. Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and the first appearance of European loanwords. The basis of the standard dialect moved f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
