Joseph Heco and the Origin of Japanese Journalism  

作　　者：WANG Hai YU Qian LIANG Wei-ping 

机构地区：[1]Guangdong University of Foreign Studies,Guangzhou,China

出　　处：《Journalism and Mass Communication》2020年第2期89-101,共13页新闻与大众传媒（英文版）

基　　金：“Translation of and Study on the Chinese-Language Literature in English Periodicals in China”(19JDZD04);a key research centre project approved by Guangdong University of Foreign Studies in 2019.

摘　　要：Joseph Heco,with the original Japanese name of Hamada Hikozo,played an active role in the diplomatic,economic,trade,and cultural interactions between the United States and Japan in the 1850s and 1860s.Being rescued from a shipwreck by an American freighter and taken to San Francisco in the 1850s,Heco had the chance to experience the advanced industrial civilization.After returning to Japan,he followed the example of the U.S.newspapers to start the first Japanese newspaper Kaigai Shimbun(Overseas News),introducing Western ideas into Japan and enabling Japanese people under the rule of the Edo bakufu/shogunate to learn about the great changes taking place outside the island.In the light of the historical background of the United States forcing Japan to open up,this paper expounds on Joseph Heco’s life experience and Kaigai Shimbun,the newspaper he founded,aiming to explain how Heco,as the“father of Japanese journalism”,promoted the development of Japanese newspaper industry.

关 键 词：Joseph Heco(Hamada Hikozo) Kaigai Shimbun origin of Japanese journalism 

分 类 号：G21[文化科学—新闻学]