ABSTRACT
Japan having taken on most of the characteristics and some of the idiosyncracies of Western civilisation, has naturally developed a newspaper press of its own. For all practical purposes the rise of the native newspaper press of Japan did not take place till some time after the Revolution of 1868. And while referring to the newspaper press this chapter gives a meed of praise to the large number of journals and magazines of a literary, scientific, and religious nature. The English journals in Japan have, perhaps not unnaturally, not so far been able to divest themselves of the idea that they have still extraterritorial rights, and are consequently justified in publishing any criticisms or news irrespective of the provisions of the press law. This press law seems to have irritated the English more than the vernacular press of Japan, especially during the late war.
