Otaru Shinbun―from 1938 to 1941Otaru Shimbun was one of major Japanese newspapers published in Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan. It competed with the two other popular Japanese newspapers in the island, Hakodate Mainichi Shimbun (函館毎日新聞) and Hokkai Taimusu (北海タイムス) before World war II,