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| Editor | Charles Wirgman |
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| Publisher | Charles Wirgman |
| Founder | Charles Wirgman |
| Founded | 1862 |
| First issue | 1862 |
| Final issue | 1887 |
| Based in | Yokohama, Japan |
| Language | English |
The Japan Punch was a satirical comic magazine and journal that was authored, illustrated and published by English painter and cartoonist Charles Wirgman from 1862 to 1887. The publication reflected the social context of Bakumatsu Yokohama and often depicted the frustrations that emerged from conflicts between Japanese domestic politics and early foreign settlement life in Japan. It utilised cartoons to comment and critique the media and political landscape of the social and political issues of the Meiji era. It might have been influenced by another English magazine called Punch.