The Japan News Digital Archive

22 January 2020

A full image and full text digital archive of The Japan News, an English-language daily published by The Yomiuri Shimbun in Japan, is now available from East View. Launched in 1955, The Japan News documents the rapid change that transformed postwar Japan, delivering international and Japanese news content from a Japanese perspective, in English.

The Japan News Digital Archive (1955-2019) features 300,000 pages of full page digitisation with original graphics and text (including advertisements) browsable and searchable on the East View Global Press Archive platform. It includes every issue of the paper published under a variety of masthead names.