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A small daily newspaper first published on September 1, 1882 (Meiji 15). It was centered around members of the Tosa faction of the Liberal Party, including Wada Izumi and Sakazaki Bin, and played the role of a separate force from the party's organ, the Jiyu Shimbun. Even after the Jiyu Shimbun ceased publication, it continued to be a Liberal Party newspaper, strongly opposing Okuma Shigenobu's proposed treaty revision (1889), but in November 1890 it merged with the Kaminari Shimbun to become the Kaminari Shimbun. Wada and others relaunched the newspaper in April 1892, but it was absorbed into the Yorozu Choho in June of the following year and ceased publication.

[Akihiko Sunohara]

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1882年（明治15）9月1日創刊された日刊の小新聞。和田稲積(いづみ)、坂崎斌(びん)ら自由党土佐派の人々が中心になり、党機関紙『自由新聞』の別働隊の役割を果たした。『自由新聞』廃刊後も自由党系紙として大隈重信(おおくましげのぶ)の条約改正案に強く反対（1889）したりしたが、90年11月『かみなり新聞』と合併し『雷新聞』となる。92年4月和田らが再刊したが、翌年6月『萬朝報(よろずちょうほう)』に吸収合併され、廃刊した。

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