Miyako Shinbun

Miyako Shinbun (都新聞) was the first Japanese daily newspaper to be published in an evening edition.^[1] It was established in Nagoya.

When the newspaper was founded in 1884, its name was Konnichi Shinbun (今日新聞). The name was changed to Miyako Shinbun in 1888.^[2]

In the first decade of the 20th century, the circulation of Miyako Shinbun was among the top seven in Japan.^[3]

In the 1930s, Mainichi Shimbun was in direct competitor with Miyako Shinbun.^[4] The publication was also recognized in the foreign press.^[5]

It merged with the Kokumin Shinbun in 1942 to form the Tokyo Shimbun.^[1]

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.^[6]

One of these was Daibosatsu Toge by Nakazato Kaizan.^[1] The work was presented to the public in 41 volumes; and it contains 1533 chapters. This historical novel was the longest in the Japanese language until Tokugawa Ieyasu. 5.7 million Japanese characters.^[7]

• Japanese newspapers
• Media of Japan

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• Nishizawa, Iwata. (1917). Japan in the Taisho era. In Commemoration of the Enthronement. Tokyo: Japan Gazette. OCLC 28706155 + Internet Archive: online, full-text version
• Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 48943301

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• Tokyo Shimbun (in Japanese)