Japan Studies: Newspapers

Mainichi newspaper articles are stored as follows
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Year 1872 to 1986 : Only image data - via PDF
Year 1987 to 1999 : Image data and Text
Year 2000 to Current : Only Text
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"The world's largest online, free-access full-image collection of newspapers published by overseas Japanese and their descendants... The collection contains about fifteen newspapers published in Hawaii and North America with a total of nearly 500,000 pages. Most publications contain a mix of Japanese and English."

The paper began in 1903 supporting the small but growing Japanese community in the Little Tokyo area of Las Angeles, California. It was the most widely circulated paper in the region by the 1940’s and included a weekly English section. The paper was forced to cease publication and its publisher was imprisoned by the government during World War II. The archive contains all obtainable published issues from 1914 through 2018.

Reprint collection of journals published by Japanese American

Digitaized version at National Diet Library

All articles can be searched by events, personal names and published dates. Retyped and easier to read than previous version.

Taishō version of Meiji nyūsu jiten.

Shōwa version of Meiji nyūsu jiten.

Index to Newspaper Articles (Taishō-present)