THE THREE NEWSPAPERS

ALLOWED TO PUBLISH DURING

THE JAPANESE INTERREGNUM

THREE CONDITIONS TO THOSE WHO WISHED TO GO INTO

PUBLISHING

1. Secure permit from the military

2. Submit to military censorship

3. Violators of the above will be SEVERELY punished

•In January 1944, President Jose P. Laurel created his own Board

of Information. “To control, direct, supervise and coordinate

all information publicity of the Japanese sponsored

government” was the function of the created regulatory body.

Denial of free expression during the occupation was resolved and

oftentimes, very brutal. Thus, only three newspapers were

allowed to be published under the Japanese censorship.

The Japanese seized and padlocked the offices of the

Manila Bulletin and the Philippine Free Press

Late December in 1941, DMHM (Debate, Mabuhay,

Herald, Monday Mail) was hit by a bomb and

completely destroyed when Manila was damaged by

bombing.

Manila Sinbunsya

All publications taken over the Japanese

administration were placed under the OSAKA

MAINICHI PUBLISHING COMPANY, a group

that established MANILA SIBUNSYA.

Manila Sinbunsya is a Japanese newspaper

published in the Philippines.

Hidezo Kaneka was its executive editor

Leyte Newsette

Japan’s own propaganda newspaper in

the Philippines

printed in Manila

it’s reason for the title “Leyte

Newsette” is unknown

it was generally about Japanese and

German military victories

December 8, 1944 headlined –

“Philippines Joins other East Asia Nations

to Celebrate 3rd Anniversary of GEA

(Greater East Asia) War”

T-V-T Company

• In June 1916, brothers Rafael and Marcos Roces purchased La

Vanguardia and Taliba from their original owner, Don Martin Ocampo -

the owner of El Renacimiento who had been ruined financially by the

lawsuit filed by Dean Conant Worchester over the Aves de Rapiña case.

•In 1928, TVT bought the Manila Times and at that time Don Alejandro

Roces had taken over the management of TVT (Rafael was no longer a

shareholder and brother Marcos eventually died before the war)

•Tribune was originally created under Don Alejandro Roces on April 1,

1925.

Don Alejandro Roces Sr.

“Father of Modern Filipino Journalism”

January 3, 1942

Taliba, La Vanguardia and The Tribune

headlined

“Japanese Troops Enter City”

January 2, 1942

Six Japanese forces took over TVT

Company in Florentino Torres Street

Taliba

a daily, periodical tabloid

newspaper of Manila

published in the Tagalog

dialect

had a libel case due to José

Corazón de Jesús’s, also

known as Huseng Batute,

column “Manila Life” having

a heading “Amerikanang

Aswang” in March 3, 1921

TALIBA

Continued publishing even after the war under Don

Joaquin “Chino” Roces.

In it’s continued publishing after the war, Taliba

started using the “Conversational Filipino” a mixture

of Filipino, English and Spanish as its language; thus,

making the purists distressed during that time.

La Vanguardia

established in 1910 by Don Martin

Ocampo

a perodical catering Spanish-

language readers

was the descendant of El

Renacimiento, a newspaper edited by

Teodoro M. Kalaw

tribune

TRIBUNE

edited by the young Carlos P. Romulo (1930 – 1934)

Joe Bautista was its editor during the Japanese Interregnum

Caters English readers

carried under its masthead the proud slogan “Independent

Filipino Daily”

January 3 – P.10 to P.05, 4-page, tabloid-like Tribune was

released

their editorials focused only on the important events

(surrender of Singapore, etc.)

TRIBUNESix days after the invasion, the associate editor of Tribune was arrested for internment as an enemy national

attempted to present an image of normalcy by printing regular articles

dependent on the Domei News Agency

February 3, 1945 - the day when it put out its last issue

David T. Boguslav

THE T-V-T newspaper chain had its tragic

close to the war’s conclusion when the

Japanese set fire to the T-V-T Building, burning

the offices, records and the presses.

After the war, the Roces family decided not the

resurrect Tribune as it was so badly tainted,

rather they launched the MANILA TIMES

T-V-T’s End

Periodicals That Were Only Allowed by

the Japanese to Circulate

• T-V-T newspaper

• Liwayway

• Bicol Herald

• Davao Nichi – Nichi

• Shin Seiki