Shinbun Sokanchi

After Meiji Renovation の Tokyo に Yu Xiang した Open な Public Paper ～ Yu Xiang の Yu Xiang の Land ～

Original Text

We will disseminate information about "the place where newspapers were first published" in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku. I visited "the place where newspapers were first published" on May 1, 2023. Access to the "newspaper place" is to go out Exit 3 of "Toranomon Station" on the Tokyo Metro Ginza Line and go left, there is a pedestrian crossing, so if you cross it, it is divided into two, so go right 15m. Go on and on your right There is a "newspaper publication monument". There is a black stone monument "newspaper publication monument" beside the Mitsui Building, which turned west at the Toranomon intersection ...

｢News creation の land ｣ monument です

Original Text

The first Japanese newspaper was the Yokohama Mainichi Shimbun in 1870. ２ The Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun (current Mainichi Shimbun) was published in 1870. Further later, the Yomiuri Shimbun was published in 1873. After that, the Asahi Shimbun will give birth in Osaka. Public enlightenment articles refer to entertainment such as manners, sports, and hobbies, and differentiated them from other newspapers that were the mainstream of politics, society, and incidents at that time.

A short stone monument

Original Text

It's a stone monument below my eyes, so I almost passed by without noticing it. This is the place where the newspapers gave birth. It was interesting to think about the transition of the press after that.

the yomiuri newspaper is from here.

Original Text

It seems that the Yomiuri Shimbun in this area was first published as the first full-fledged newspaper in Japan in 1897. It is near the intersection of Toranomon

News Startup

Original Text

A black stone monument, which was not very tall, was built on the outer circumference of the Toranomon intersection. This is the birthplace of the Yomiuri Shimbun, which was first published in the early Meiji era (also known at the time of its first publication).