Show APPA y 41 I 1 Z A 41 J A japanese newsboy Prep prepared tired by tile national coclet So clet Wu washington hIngton D C IID recent burning binning in tokyo toko of tile the plant of tile japan advertiser b best c st known american Ameil can daily newspaper tn in the Or orient lelit arouses interest in n its japanese com oin peti and tile way in which western newspaper methods liae have been adapted to conditions condition lit in tile the land lana of the sun that japan should in the very ery few years since lier ber modern metamorphosis have so speedily caught up with the van of perlo dival publication is s less wonderful erfal when wh ell one remembers that the orient I 1 Is s tilt birthplace of the art preserve pres ervn five and tufit china possesses the oldest newspaper in the world there haie hae been similar newspapers from remote antiquity lit in japan J iliin email sheets roughly struck olt off from froin woodin wooden blocks detailing some great gre t political fact or describing sortie some erline 0 line or sortie generally genei ally interesting event the first attempt nt at a model n journal in japan was in 1861 when the was ins undertake dundei taken ll fly joseph ness a picturesque character who in 18 1850 0 n was as cast away in the ft wrecking of a junk rescued and carried to america ikeie lie lived tor for a number of years acquired a smattering mattering of w estern ideas and methods and ami when japan wits was opened after the visit of commodore perry returned to hla his native land as an interpreter the first modern modem newspaper 11 ly worthy of the name wits was founded by john black an englishman one of the first foreign residents of yokohama tills this was in 1872 since then japanese journalism has grown with wonderful rapidity both in volume and in character there are aie now some eight hundred newspapers and mag agines published in the empire of which more than two to hundred ore are in tokyo 0 of the newspapers there are tile lie which Is the official gazette gi vette containing the km government eminent announcements lit such as laws regulations and appointments the ninth much quoted in press dispatches from tokyo as giving the government opinion of things intel international national during the premiership mier ship of prince katsura and the blehl bichl as aa expressing popular sentiment of the better sort of magazines there are scores of every sort and kind literary artistic legal medical scientific teelin technical teni along all lines of modern ment and endeavor Is the tha times the JIJI corresponds in a measure to our words the times means timely events or dally daily events la Is the word for journal or merely paper the jiji Is a monument in a way to tile the memory of its founder not more a monument than a constant reincarnation of his spirit and influence it was founded 48 years ago by the late fukuzawa yukichi hl who was often called ca I 1 led the lie japanese gladstone no ko account of japan however brief and particularly no reference to its intellectual and literary development would be complete without reference to the life and influence of this remarkable man tile the policy of the paper Is independent it Is partisan only in thatis that it Is liberal devoted demoted to progress and opposed to tiny any retrograde re troga a de policy in japanese civilization when it takes occasion to differ with the govern mient it dors does so with dignified and logical criticism and not with the hysterical ef fusions that appear in ili the 11 yellow journals that hae developed in japan its as elsewhere because c of this scholarly and dig unified character jiju chimpo wields a input influence find and its vole voe Is potent it jiping anti and controlling public lon nn tin the paper emphasizes its courtner cial department and a stair blah of 0 men looks after tills this pint part ot of tile the news A foreign deportment department of three editors cares for tile the cable and telegraph dispatches and keeps in close and intelligent tell igent touch with international at af falls fairs domestic nes Is gathered by correspondents spon dents lit in every aery city and important town of the empire sifted anil and arranged by two editors twenty men compose the city staff and all in ili close harmony with tile HIP re Ineth methods of our occidental papers coer tile local news of tokyo a city of moie I 1 I 1 lall two million in ili I 1 with nil all oriental languages Is written print oil od front right to left and tile title alifi chii e Is lit in tile lie right li hand ind corner coiner of ahia wo imal I 1 i I 1 1 lip 10 f for r us t the lie eighth ww flaps of if print are vert PHI ial ai arvail lol gnp to lo bott bottrill 1111 binl front right in ili id I 1 each enli article Is ili it 11 conall square surround sij edby lv a border bonier how the type Is st typesetting lit in aio ariwite v Is it 11 te a and tilt laborious pit of bushick bushi cs s from an choll though h tile the ninny many hands employed iid make it rapid enough in tin an oriental sense japanese Is printed in two sets of characters character the borrowed chinese which mitch nie are ideographic each representing 11 word or it kroup group of words an anil side by side with these in their vertical line runs the or tion in the indigenous grass charne characters n sort of phonetic or stenographic script easily road read mid understood by the common and uneducated people when an article or editorial Is ready in manuscript lt it Is sent first to the ideographic composing room where here it Is 19 divided into takes and given to chinese compositors the room Is filled with closely set racks containing tile alio tit thousands of varieties of ideographic type enell compositor pots goes from rack to rock rack looking for the character required that lie he may inay not forget what lie he Is looking for lie sings it over oer and over audibly in a cracked nasal sort of singsong sing song A composing room Is anything but a quiet place pince resembling the chorus of a chinese theater th enter when the article Is finished it Is placed in a sort of galley tied together and sent to the rent real compost tors torf who untie it and proceed with a pair of tweezers to place the small grass type beside the ideograph characters this work demands scholar ship of a high order for it required require i not only an all accurate nind and exact knowledge of orthography and language but general information in regard to the subjects discussed ased that I 1 the multi meaning characters may he be interpreted the type thus completed Is proved the proof carefully read and corrected and taken then to the imposing stones tones fc where bere it goes into the makeup make up of the paper all typesetting Is of necessity hand work ns as the peculiar character of thit the language lan precludes the use nse ot of a linotype stereotyping and press work ars are n long the ordinary lines required for oil an american perfecting machine from w which aich the paper cornes comes folded and counted ns as in one of 0 our own establishments lish ments the days work Is similar to our own owl although the hours houis differ slightly the editorial department begins activities about eleven in the morning and its work is completed by five in the afternoon the typesetters are tit at work ork by eight the business offices are open from ten to ten tile the first edition Is on tile press by eight in order that it may catch the night trains for provIn provincial vial file city edition goes to press ut a tn in |