Yorozu Choho - Yorozu Choho

Japanese: 万朝報 - よろずちょうほう

A daily newspaper in Tokyo from the Meiji to Showa periods. Founded by Kuroiwa Ruiko in November 1892. Based on the editorial policy of "Firstly, simple, secondly, clear, thirdly, delightful," it gained popularity among Edokko for its scandalous articles on high society, entertainment articles, and Ruiko's novels. From around 1900, it welcomed such commentators as Uchimura Kanzo, Kotoku Shusui, and Sakai Toshihiko, and became a newspaper with a strong progressive tone. However, before the Russo-Japanese War, Kuroiwa switched to a pro-war stance, and Uchimura, Kotoku, and others who were anti-war, left the company. It also lagged behind in establishing a reporting system, and gradually fell out of the mainstream of the newspaper world. Its popularity temporarily recovered during the Taisho period constitutional government protection movement, but it declined after Kuroiwa's death in 1920, and was absorbed into the Tokyo Mainichi Shimbun (founded in 1910, ceased publication in 1941) in September 1940. The term "page three news," used to describe social incidents, comes from the fact that these articles were published on page three of the four-page newspaper Yorozu Choho.

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Japanese:

明治から昭和にかけての東京の日刊新聞。 1892年 11月黒岩涙香が創刊。「一に簡単，二に明瞭，三に痛快」の編集方針のもとに上流社会のスキャンダル記事や娯楽記事，涙香の小説で江戸っ子の人気を博した。 1900年頃から内村鑑三，幸徳秋水，堺利彦らの論客を迎え，進歩的色彩の強い言論新聞となったが，日露戦争を前にして黒岩が主戦論に転じたため，非戦論の内村，幸徳らは退社した。また報道体制の確立にもおくれをとったため，新聞界の主流から次第に離れ，大正期憲政擁護運動で一時的に人気を回復したが，20年黒岩の死後衰退，40年9月『東京毎夕新聞』 (1910創刊，41廃刊) に吸収合併された。なお社会事件を表現する「三面記事」は，この万朝報の4ページ立ての3面に記載されたことに由来する。