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With such manpower on tap, the Japanese press can turn loose hordes of newsmen, gives the cops more trouble than the rioters at demonstrations. Japanese photographers vault graves and straddle coffins to get good shots of mass funerals. A reporter once got into Premier Nobusuke Kishi's bedroom. In addition, Japanese papers use flashy modern trappings such as airplanes, walkie-talkies and monotypes that can set some 2,200 Japanese syllabaries and Chinese ideographs...
This policy plays Japan's conservative-owned papers into the hands of left-wing staffers, who have so discredited Premier Kishi that last month he made the face-losing appeal: "Is it all that bad-is there nothing good?" To many readers, Japan's industrious, irresponsible press has made it all seem that bad. Says one student: "We learn from the press that the conservatives are thinly disguised reactionaries and the socialists are weak and ineffectual. Perhaps the Communists are really the only people who have something...
...Tokyo exchange set two records in a week. The number of shares changing hands rose by 30% during the week and the closing average price of 225 stocks hit $1.71, highest since the market reopened in 1949. Reasons: Premier Kishi's recent election victory, a cut in the central bank rate to 7.67%, and Japan's third consecutive bumper rice crop. ¶ On London's Threadneeue Street, where stocks have bounced back 30% since the low point last February, industrial prices rose to a new 1958 high every day in the week. The London Financial Times...
Chopping away with the matched set of woods and irons given to him last year by Fellow Golfer Ike Eisenhower, Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi finished well out of the yen in a Foreign Office-Foreign Diplomatic Corps tournament. With an old amateur's studied, off-day melancholy, Kishi brooded: "I just could not get going." With pro shop objectivity, the manager of the Sengokuhara Golf Course said: "Kishi seemed to be in his usual form...
Greeting the Protestant delegates at a monster rally in Tokyo's vast Sports Arena, Japan's Buddhist Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi said politely: "Japan is not a Christian country, but Japanese Christians wield a powerful moral influence out of all proportion to their numbers." Assembled in Tokyo, just 99 years after the first Protestant mission was organized in Japan, were 3,000 Japanese delegates and 1,200 delegates from 62 other nations. The occasion: the 14th World Convention on Christian Education, sponsored by the World Council of Christian Education and Sunday School Association. Theme of the convention...