One prefecture, one newspaper system

...Control over speech and publishing was also strengthened. Immediately after the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Tojo Cabinet, based on the Newspaper Business Order and other laws, began to consolidate newspapers, with the principle of one newspaper per prefecture, and to consolidate and abolish magazines. As a result, the number of newspapers and magazines, which had been 18,022 at the end of 1941, dropped sharply to 2,548 at the end of 1944.

*Some of the terminology used in relation to the "one prefecture, one newspaper system" is listed below.

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…言論と出版に対する統制も強められた。東条内閣は，太平洋戦争開戦直後から新聞事業令などに基づき1府県1紙制を原則とする新聞の統合と，雑誌の統廃合に着手した。そのため41年末に1万8022点あった新聞と雑誌は，44年末には2548点に激減した。…

※「１府県１紙制」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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