Requires
- Buildings:
- Religions:
Basic Building Statistics (can be modified by difficulty level, arts, skills, traits and retainers)
- Cost: 12500
- Spreads pro-Imperial sentiment to neighbouring provinces (+2 influence)
- Improves the spread of pro-Imperial sentiment (+5 influence)
- Enables recruitment of Rank 1 ishin shishi
- +1 to repression in this province
- +4 to happiness in this province
Clan Effects
- +1 to the current number of ishin shishi that may be fielded
Description
"Extra! Extra! Read all about it!"
A newspaper is a unique building for an Imperial faction. It adds to happiness, and also helps policing by reporting news in the right fashion. The quality of any ishin-shishi recruited is improved by a newspaper. Meiji-period Japanese newspapers were initially intended to be for foreigners, and largely containing foreign news. There had been Japanese news sheets since the 1700s but they were, as might be expected, closely monitored by the government. When the newspapers were produced with Japanese news and content, they soon divided into "broadsheets" and "tabloids", acting respectively as political propaganda for various parties and interest groups, and sources of more general lightweight news and entertainment. Neither sort of paper survived intact to the end of the century, and Japan developed a fairly healthy free press that tried to report impartially. This state of affairs lasted until the rise of militarism and the imposition of heavy-handed government censorship.