Word: asahi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there is a still bigger reason for Asahi's unique position: its reputation for integrity. Says Chairman of the Board Chu Hasebe: "Asahi is like a big tree. It stands alone and conspicuous, where any wind can find and blow against it. We have had our friends and our enemies, but we have never distorted the facts for either...
Bombs & Bayonets. The man who planted the big tree was Ryuhei Murayama, art collector, patron of the No dance, and, until his death in 1933 at the age of 83, Japan's most vigorous and imaginative publisher. In the 52 years that lean, white-bearded Murayama ran Asahi, he built it up from a struggling lo?al sheet to a national institution with editions in Osaka, Tokyo and Kokura...
...first publisher to use rotary presses in Japan, the first to install a newspaper-clipping morgue, the first to run a picture supplement. In 1923, Asahi inaugurated Japan's first regular airmail service-with its own fleet of planes-to link the Osaka and Tokyo editions...
Murayama also gave Asahi such a liberal and antimilitarist tone that nationalist gangsters beat him and bombed his house and, in 1936, soldiers with bayonets invaded Asahi's modernistic seven-story Tokyo offices and assaulted some of his successors. In World War II, the militarists "purged" Asahi, but the interlopers were ousted after Japan's surrender...
...managing editor of Tokyo Asahi is Makoto Takano, 47, who was free of any war-party taint. Meticulous and scholarly, Editor Takano landed a job with Asahi in 1929 by winning a competitive examination for graduates of Tokyo Imperial University. He recently spent three months in the U.S. as the guest of the New York Times...