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Japanese
Occupation
 With
the invasion of the Japanese most publications were shut down
except for the ones they used
for their propaganda. DMHM was the first destroyed when Manila
was bombed. It was only
TVT which was left to operate however it was controlled and functioned
as "solely for the benefit of the Japanese state" on October 12, 1942.
The chain together with Ramon Roces' Liwayway was
allowed to be published regularly but under censorship of the Japanese
Imperial Army. The printing and distribution of the periodicals
were transferred under Osaka Mainichi Publishing
Company, established by  Manila
Sinbusya Corporation. The only papers that existed
those times were that of TVT, Liwayway, Manila Shimbun, Shin-Seiki,
Bicol Herald and Davao Nichi-Nichi, all under the control of the corporation.
With
the side of the guerrillas they also came up with their own periodicals.
These were typewritten or mimeographed paraphernalias on 8 ½ x 11-inch
paper edited by journalists-guerillas. The publication served to empower
the soldiers' and people's morale and aid as counter propaganda against
the Japanese.
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