Word: keizai
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...estimated 44 other foreigners (ten Americans) remain under detention in China, including at least one journalist, Keiji Samejima, 37, an able correspondent for Tokyo's Nihon Keizai, who was arrested in June...
...Japan-more than in any other country except the U.S.-newspaper circulation has been growing, and no major newspapers have folded in the past decade. Five Tokyo-based national newspapers blanket the country: Asahi (circ. 5.1 million), Yomiuri (4.6 million), Mainichi (4,000,000), Sankei (1.9 million) and Nihon Keizai (930,000). Putting out 42 daily editions, Asahi has 2,000 editorial staffers, 295 domestic bureaus and 24 correspondents overseas. Journalism is a profession with prestige in Japan, and papers are swamped with job applicants. This year Asahi picked the cream of 30 from a crop...
...fastest-growing newspaper in Japan is not one of its five giant dailies with circulations of a million or more, but the Wall Street Journal of Japan's business world, Nikon Keizai Shimbun (circ...
...honorable gentlemen of Japan could hardly be blamed if seen tittering behind their fans last week. On the front page of Tokyo's top financial daily, Nihon Keizai, appeared the startling news that the Kennedy Administration was pleading with Japanese industrialists to build plants in such "underdeveloped" areas as Kansas, North Carolina and New Jersey. "This request by the U.S., hitherto leader of the free world in the development of less advanced countries, came as a surprise to the Japanese Foreign Office," crowed Nihon Keizai...
...Americans as well. Growled Republican Congressman William Avery of Kansas: "Wichita has an abundance of skilled labor available, but I hardly believe we need to import Japanese capital and ideas to utilize it." In Washington, red-faced Administration officials hastily set the record straight. Nihon Keizai had built its overblown story on brochures that the Commerce Department sent last March to U.S. embassies in Europe and Japan. They were part of a campaign to attract more foreign investment to the U.S. as a way to alleviate unemployment and the balance-of-payments deficit. Though the Japanese were among the recipients...