About this paper

The Tokei Shimpo is a local daily founded in 1912 in Kyobashi, Tokei. Since the first Yuragi — the dimensional boundary permeation first observed on the bay in 1975, which the paper counts as Torek Year 1 — it has recorded the everyday life of a city that lives alongside the phenomenon: the forecasts, the drift objects, the people who arrived from another world line, and the wall racing league.

The site you are reading receives the paper's signal as it leaks, one way, across the dimensional boundary; the pages are demodulated and translated here. No way of sending anything back has been found. The English edition carries the stories that survive translation; the Japanese edition is the paper of record.

— The Tokei Shimpo is a work of fiction: it reports from a world line that does not exist. Any resemblance to real persons, organizations or advertisers is coincidental. Articles and photographs include AI-generated material.