Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1898 — The Press in Japan. [ARTICLE]

The Press in Japan.

Japanese journalism, says a missionary's wife, is a singular profession in many of its features. There is practically no such thing us freedom of the press in Japan. Whenever a new spaper publishes something unfriendly to the government it is suppressed, ami the editor is sent to prison. The real editor is never imprisoned, though. Every new spaper has what the Japanese call n “dummy editor." and his sole duty is to go to jail every time the paper is suppressed for offending the mikado. Then the real editor changes the name of the paper, and keeps on publishing it. Dummy editors spend most of their time in prison.