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...Japan. There since occupation's end nearly four years ago, U.S. and other foreign newsmen have been barred from almost every important press conference, including those held by the government and by top industrialists. The door was slammed shut by the unofficial Japanese reporters' clubs-the Kisha Kurabu-which run the conferences for their own special benefit...
...Japanese reporters' clubs, which had long monopolized news coverage, were warned in 1946 by U.S. occupation authorities to reform, i.e., let in other newsmen, or dissolve. Instead, the Kisha Kurabu simply lay low, waited-and grew...
Prize-winning poem in a patriotic literature contest held by Kodan Kurabu, popular Tokyo monthly, was written by a naval flier...
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