Official Batavia Newspaper - Official Batavia Newspaper

Japanese: 官板バタヒヤ新聞 - かんぱんバタビヤしんぶん

A Japanese translation of a newspaper published at the end of the Edo period. It was the beginning of newspaper publishing in Japan. Since the beginning of the Edo period, the Dutch trading post in Nagasaki had presented the Edo Shogunate with overseas information brought by Dutch merchant ships every year. These were called "Dutch Rusetsu-goshi" (Holland Newspapers), but towards the end of the Ansei period, the newspaper was replaced by the "Javaansche Courant," an organ of the Dutch Government-General in Jakarta, which was translated by the Bansho Shirabesho (Investigative Bureau of Foreign Affairs) and submitted to the Shogunate authorities. In January 1862 (Bunkyu 2), the Shogunate had the official bookshop, Rousoukan, at Sannohashi on the Tatekawa River in Honjo, publish it under the title "Kanban Batahiya Shimbun."

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

幕末に発行された邦訳新聞。日本における新聞出版の嚆矢（こうし）。長崎のオランダ商館は幕初以来，毎年オランダ商船のもたらす海外情報を江戸幕府に献上していた。これを〈オランダ風説書〉といったが，安政末年にいたってジャカルタのオランダ総督府機関紙《ヤファンシェ･クーラントJavaansche Courant》が代わって献上されるようになり，蕃書調所が翻訳して幕政当局に提出した。1862年(文久2)1月，幕府は御用書肆であった本所竪川三之橋の老皀（ろうそう）館に，これを《官板バタヒヤ新聞》と題して出版させた。

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