In Shanghai Japanese Media Perspective In Shanghai (1923-1932)

Shanghai as the most cosmopolitan city of China and an epitome of China's modern history ismoving toward international metropolis. If we pay attention to the foreign population inShanghai, we can find that Japanese, the primary group of foreigners at present, had been takingthe first place from 1915 to 1932. Many of them call Shanghai their second hometown, and the oldmemory of this city always rushes into their mind even now. In 1923, the inauguration of therapid seaway between Nagasaki and Shanghai was an important chapter of the transport history inJapan. With the development of traffic, more and more Japanese immigrated into Shanghai, andmost of them yearned for a new beginning from then on. They dwelled in Hongkou ward, anorth-east area in Shanghai, Which was the International Settlements. There were so manyJapanese residents that Hongkou was even mistaken as the Japanese Concession. Thoseself-reliance Japanese residents used to get information from their own media. In the 1920's, thewarring state period of China military clique, director generals who got the support from Japan,should have Japanese consultants to report their campaign regularly toward the Japan Minister toBeijing. Therefore, Japanese News agency took an advantage to get information, and could sendtheir message to the newspapers on time. In this way, Japan had a greater influence upon Chinathan the west did at that moment. Especially, as a guide of life for the Japanese residents, theJapanese press in Shanghai changed their inmost thoughts at the same time. There were alsosome famous Japanese journalists, who wrote travel sketches to display their view of Shanghai,leaded a boom of Shanghai literary in Japan. Although the Japanese press serviced their ownpolitic interest, it did connect the Japanese residents with Japan as well as the Shanghai society,and had took an important role in the history of the communication between Japan and China.