Toyo Keizai Shinpo - Toyo Keizai Shinpo

A financial and economic magazine. It was founded in 1895 (Meiji 28) by Machida Chuji, who was in London at the time the Sino-Japanese War broke out, modelled on The Economist and The Statist magazines. It was initially published monthly, but became a weekly magazine from 1919 (Taisho 8). After Machida, Amano Tameyuki, Uematsu Hisaaki, Miura Tetsutaro and others became editors in chief. In its early days, it was praised alongside Taguchi Ukichi's Tokyo Keizai Zasshi, and was a lively publication with the aim of nurturing industrial capital, advocating open-door policies and free trade, and at times even advocating a civil service system for the Ministers of the Army and Navy in response to the tyranny of the military. Its liberal stance was continued by Ishibashi Tanzan, who served as editor-in-chief from 1925 to 1946, and he wrote a number of noteworthy articles, such as the debate over lifting the gold embargo and "What can we learn from Germany's rebellion?" in response to the signing of the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact in 1939. There is an anecdote about the latter, in which Iwanami Shigeo circulated an excerpt from it. The title was changed to "Weekly Toyo Keizai" from the special New Year's issue in 1986.

[Hideo Kyotani]

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財政経済雑誌。日清(にっしん)戦争勃発(ぼっぱつ)時ロンドンにあった町田忠治(ちゅうじ)が『エコノミスト』『ステイティスト』誌に倣って1895年（明治28）創刊した。当初は旬刊、1919年（大正8）以降週刊。町田のあと、天野為之(ためゆき)、植松考昭(ひさあき)、三浦銕太郎(てつたろう)らが主幹となる。創業期には田口卯吉(うきち)の『東京経済雑誌』と並び称され、産業資本育成を目ざして活発な言論を展開、門戸開放と自由貿易を主張、ときには軍部の横暴に対して陸海軍大臣の文官制を提唱したりした。その自由主義的立場は25年から46年（昭和21）までの石橋湛山(たんざん)主幹にも継承され、たとえば金解禁論争、39年の独ソ不可侵条約締結に対する「独逸(ドイツ)の背反は何を訓(おし)へるか」など特筆すべき数々の論説がある。後者は岩波茂雄がその抜き刷りを回覧したという挿話が残っている。61年新年特大号から『週刊東洋経済』と改題。

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