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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.
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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
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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
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The centre-left Mainichi Shimbun quoted a senior prosecutor as saying: "This is what we predicted. This has ruined the prosecutors' painstaking work."
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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.
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printing blocks), which were printed handbills sold in major cities to commemorate major social gatherings or events.
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for their critical stance against government bureaucracy that favored protecting citizens' rights and
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Listed below is an overview of reproductions of the three major Japanese daily newspapers, the
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are geared towards libraries and archives, and are usually organized and released by month.
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series that includes newspaper stories and images until 1960, is forthcoming. Issues of
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Throughout their history, Japanese newspapers have had a central role in issues of
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as "political forums" because these papers were inextricably tied to the
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A History of Japanese Journalism: State of Affairs and Affairs of State
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to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is
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printed since August 1984 are available through Lexis-Nexis Academic.
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to Japan, which is the situation today based on the Article 21 of the
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started becoming more similar to the modern, "impartial" newspapers.
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printed since 1998 are also available as an online resource through
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These historical newspapers are available in three major forms, as
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From general news-oriented papers to special interest newspapers
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in the 1930s to the 1940s, newspapers faced intense government
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used government control in order to inculcate democratic and
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Newspapers at this time can be divided into two types,
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versions. Microfilm versions are available from 1888;
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