Oriental Freedom Newspaper - Toyo Jiyu Newspaper

Japanese: 東洋自由新聞 - とうようじゆうしんぶん
Oriental Freedom Newspaper - Toyo Jiyu Newspaper

A daily newspaper founded in Tokyo on March 18, 1881 (Meiji 14) with Saionji Kinmochi, who had returned from France, as president. Nakae Chomin was editor-in-chief and the newspaper sought to promote the cause of freedom and equality based on French ideology, and its employees included Matsuda Masahisa, Aida Masafumi, Matsuzawa Kyusaku, and Hayashi Masaaki. However, at the height of the Freedom and People's Rights Movement, Sanjo Sanetomi, Iwakura Tomomi, and others feared the social impact of Saionji, the head of a Seiga (a family of nobles), presiding over a newspaper, and on April 8, by imperial decree of Emperor Meiji, had Saionji withdraw from the newspaper. Matsuzawa was charged with a crime for distributing a manifesto about this incident, and the paper eventually ceased publication with its 34th issue on April 30th, with the editorial "The Toyo Jiyu Shimbun is overthrown."

[Akihiko Sunohara]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

1881年(明治14)3月18日、フランス帰りの西園寺公望(さいおんじきんもち)を社長にして東京で創刊された日刊紙。中江兆民が主筆になり、フランス流の思想をもとに自由平等の大義を鼓吹しようとしたもので、社員に松田正久、相田正文、松沢求策、林正明らがいた。しかし自由民権運動の高揚期に、清華(せいが)(公卿(くぎょう)の家格)筆頭である西園寺が新聞を主宰するということの社会的影響を恐れた三条実美(さねとみ)、岩倉具視(ともみ)らは、4月8日明治天皇の内勅によって、西園寺に新聞から手を引かせた。松沢は、このいきさつを檄文(げきぶん)にして配布したため罪に問われ、結局、同紙は4月30日「東洋自由新聞顛覆(てんぷく)す」の社説を掲げて第34号で廃刊になった。

[春原昭彦]

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