Yūben (雄辯, Eloquence) was a Japanese monthly magazine which focused on public speaking.
Yūben was launched by Seiji Noma in 1910 as a monthly magazine, and its first issue appeared in February that year.
[3] The goal of Yūben was to improve the self-expression ability of young people which was considered to be significant for democracy.
[4] Therefore, the magazine provided scholarly and popular articles about oratory and published the texts of the speeches by orators[4] who included Abraham Lincoln, William Jennings Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt.
[5] Yūben also featured articles in regard to the historical significance of public speaking and its impacts on the modernization of Japan.