Word: mainichi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Asahi, Mainichi and Yomiuri Hochi, the three big Tokyo dailies, all touted the leftward trend. Former militarist editors, now wearing pinkish hues, might privately admit they were hypocrites, but they made a great show of turning coats publicly. General MacArthur's headquarters had summoned the editors last December, the day before the Communists announced their platform, and warned them that they must be fair to new parties. Some editors said they took the warning as a plug for the Communists. And behind their unfamiliar attitude was a feeling that, as an Asahi editor put it, "the new thing...
...Ministry, it seemed that the Son of Heaven had stepped down to a very earthy earth. The photograph was especially painful, for it showed MacArthur, in informal attire, towering over the fussily dressed Emperor (whom no mortal is supposed to behold from above). The Ministry suppressed editions of Asahi, Mainichi and Yomiuri Hochi, which car ried both the picture and reports of the meeting. MacArthur sternly ordered the banned papers released to the public...
...When TIME'S August 27 issue, with MacArthur on the cover, was flown to occupied Japan, some of the first copies were snapped up by, the two big Tokyo newspapers Asahi and Mainichi, whose editors got from TIME the first free-press news to reach that land of propagandists and censors since Pearl Harbor...
Bowen breakfasted at 7, Houghton and Stuart at 9. Stuart spent the forenoon writing on his pet subject: New Testament criticism. At lunch all three took turns reading aloud the German war communiques from the English edition of Osaka Mainichi. High point of the day was "cocktail hour," when the three met to re-chew the morsels of news they had read at lunch. Every night Houghton and Stuart played anagrams-altogether 1,500 games. (Dr. Houghton wrote a book on anagrams which should be the definitive work...
Speculating, as beaten men will, on the consolations of adversity, Tokyo's Mainichi observed: "According to the notions held heretofore no great power could exist that was not a strong power. Yet . . . can we not . . . build up for the first time in the history of mankind a great power without arms?" It added: "Inevitably the theory and production method of the atomic bomb will have to be made public before long...