English: First issue frontpage of Mainichi Shimbun Frontpage, 21 February 1872 (Lunar calendar). It's March 29 according to the Gregorian calendar. It was then called the Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun.
While many of the newspapers launched in the early Meiji era disappeared or were absorbed, theTokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun continued to exist until the Showa era, leading to the current Mainichi Shimbun.
This first issue of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun is printed on Japanese paper called Mino Paper, not Western paper, and the content is the "Government Bulletin" that publishes government decree and official documents and the general news "Eko Sodan It was about two. To the right of the title is a red stamp of "government permit" that the government has given permission.
In addition, an organization name of the government, "daijō-kan", "the state cults",
such as the price of the newspaper is in the statements and momme rather than a circle,
in a really feel like the early Meiji era of the newspaper to leave the state of the still Edo period, modern times It is a material that can be said to be a document in the process of changing from a document to a modern document.
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First issue frontpage of Mainichi Shimbun Frontpage, 21 February 1872. It was then called the Tokyo Nichinichi Shimbun.