Jul 17, 2010

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Japanese yellow press of the 19th century

“A twelve-year girl had a baby”, “A husband brutally murdered his wife and his child”, “A policeman killed prostitutes” – this is not a modern crime news, this was the headlines of color prints, which subscribers received as a newspaper supplement in 1870 in Japan.

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