Abstract

This article takes a closer look at the “newspaper funerals” held in 1882 in the city of Kōchi, protesting government censorship. The funerals were an early example of newspaper editors’ awareness of their medium as a tool to energize and steer a movement toward specific political aims, as well as an instrument to gain a foothold within the newly emerging “public sphere” in modern Japan.

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