Word: akahata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these alert, aggressive techniques, the Japanese press has abdicated its responsibility to espouse, attack or even examine the variety of political opinions that are the stuff of democracy. It is in the grip of impartiality gone haywire. Only two of the nation's papers-the daily Communist Akahata (circ. 30,000) and the thrice-monthly Socialist Shakai Shimpo (circ. 80,000)-advance any creed. The rest of the Japanese press has only one policy: to attack the government. The rationalization is that the government is the press's traditional enemy, must be fought even though the papers...
Japan's Teachers Union is half a million strong and dominated by Communists. Some of its members use the Communist Party newspaper Akahata as a text in classes, organize their adolescent charges into party cells, on occasion contribute from their meager (average $53 monthly) salaries to the financing of anti-U.S. movies...
Kyoto last week offered a case in point. There parents of children attending high school complained to the board of education that teachers were reading the Communist party newspaper Akahata (Red Flag) in their classrooms and forcing students to sing the Internationale. Children were urged to see a current crop of anti-U.S. movies, notably Hiroshima, a lurid hate movie about the atom bombing, which the Teachers Union itself produced and sponsored...
...Japan, following General MacArthur's suspension of Akahata, leading Communist newspaper, Japanese authorities closed down 1,092 Communist newspapers and periodicals...
...MacArthur decided that he had had enough of Red rabble-rousing. One morning last week the angry general ordered the Japanese government to bar the Communist Party's 24 Central Committeemen from all further political activity. The next day MacArthur added to the list 17 top staffers of Akahata (Red Flag), the party's newspaper...