The Japan Weekly Chronicle being the weekly edition of the Japan Daily Chronicle. June 1, 1911 [to December 26, 1912]

Published by Office of the Japan Chronicle, 65 Naniwa-machi, Kobe, 1912

About this Item

Three volumes, folio, whole nos. (new series) 491 to 573 (82 issues, each approx. 44-48 pages - over 3,500 pages in all), wanting the issue for November 28, 1912; text in triple column; contemporary full limp brown morocco, rubbed and worn, but sound and the interior relatively clean. Ownership signature on many issues of Lovett M. Wood, and his occasional marks of readership in ink and blue pencil. Ex-Seattle Public Library with their bookplates. No external markings other than "Seattle Public Library" in small gilt letters on covers. The last two years of the Meiji Era in Japan. Contains news of Japanese concern, but also reporting on world-wide events, including lengthy reports of the Titanic disaster, with special attention to news from China and Korea. "The English-language Japan Chronicle Weekly (1900 1940) is the newspaper of record for Japan s engagement with modernity and its emergence, through war, political and social upheaval and seismic social change in East Asia, onto the world stage in the first half of the twentieth century. Historians of East Asia have long seen the Japan Chronicle as a uniquely valuable resource" (Brill).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Japan Weekly Chronicle being the weekly edition of the Japan Daily Chronicle. June 1, 1911 [to December 26, 1912]
• Publisher: Office of the Japan Chronicle, 65 Naniwa-machi, Kobe
• Publication Date: 1912
• Seller catalogs:
  • Asia
  • Japan