Word: akahata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government. Such rabble-rousing irresponsibility is neither a studied reflection of the national will nor a momentary lapse from reason: it is the very nature of the Japanese press. With one minor exception-the Communist Party's daily Akahata (circ. 53,000)-the country's 186 dailies stand for nothing at all. But they are united against the government. It just so happens that the Conservatives have been in power since the end of 1948, but with fine impartiality, the press has flayed all of Premier Kishi's predecessors as savagely as Kishi. Says one leading Tokyo...