Japanese Penny Dreadfuls
May 19, 2018 4:38 PM Subscribe
Stories of this sort—lurid, sensational, violent—were the bread-and-butter of Tokyo’s early tabloids
This paragraph seems particularly relevant these days:posted by languagehat at 8:03 AM on May 20, 2018
Canadian born, Tokyo based and Metafilter's own David Bull just recently did a video on a similar publication from the same era - Japan's answer to pulp novels.
posted by PenDevil at 3:45 AM on May 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by PenDevil at 3:45 AM on May 21, 2018 [1 favorite]
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