Word: jiji
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stiff-necked, German-born G-2 officer Brigadier General Charles A. Willoughby (who changed his name from Von Tscheppe-Weidenbach) sat in his Dai Ichi Building office late one night, scanning proofsheets of the English-language Nippon Times, his eye lit on an editorial reprinted from the Tokyo daily Jiji Shimpo. "Japanese teachers," he read, "have the habit of blind worship for . . . the man in power. . . . They used to endeavor to instill in the minds of their pupils that the Emperor was God. Now they claim that General MacArthur is the Savior.. .. Until the Japanese are cleansed of this...
Lawed from the Beat. Reporters or papers that won't play ball are turned down for membership, are then denied admission to press conferences because they don't "belong." All but one or two of Japan's 50-odd new postwar papers have been kept out. Jiji, Japan's second-biggest news agency, with membership in only two clubs, has to feed its clients unofficial, secondhand yarns...
...said Osaka's Jiji Shimpo, one of Japan's prime social problems was to find new jobs for the Princes. There was always the down-to-earth Empress' newly revealed hobby...