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Miyako Shimbun
was the first Japanese daily newspaper to be published in an evening edition.Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). "''Miyako Shimbun''" in It was established in Nagoya. History When the newspaper was founded in 1884, its name was . The name was changed to ''Miyako Shinbun'' in 1888. In the first decade of the 20th century, the circulation of ''Miyako Shinbun'' was among the top seven in Japan. In the 1930s, '' Mainichi Shimbun'' was in direct competitor with ''Miyako Shinbun.'' The publication was also recognized in the foreign press. It merged with the '' Kokumin Shinbun'' in 1942 to form the ''Tokyo Shimbun''. Literary serials The journal published a number of literary serials. In the 1890s, the newspaper had established a reputation for carrying translated or adapted versions of Western novels; but the advent of the First Sino-Japanese War became, in part, a cause for a shift in emphasis to featuring the work of Japanese writers. One of these was ''Daib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north toward the East China Sea, Philippine Sea, and Taiwan in the south. Japan is a part of the Ring of Fire, and spans Japanese archipelago, an archipelago of List of islands of Japan, 6852 islands covering ; the five main islands are Hokkaido, Honshu (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyushu, and Okinawa Island, Okinawa. Tokyo is the Capital of Japan, nation's capital and largest city, followed by Yokohama, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kobe, and Kyoto. Japan is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eleventh most populous country in the world, as well as one of the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated and Urbanization by country, urbanized. About three-fourths of Geography of Japan, the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
