Word: mainichi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signs of a white backlash, even though many broadcast and newspaper accounts of the power failure emphasized the disorders. Sample headline from the Los Angeles Times: CITY'S PRIDE IN ITSELF GOES DIM IN THE BLACKOUT. Newspapers abroad also focused on the looting. A headline from Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun: PANIC GRIPS NEW YORK; from West Germany's Bild Zeitung: NEW YORK'S BLOODIEST NIGHT; from London's Daily Express: THE NAKED CITY...
Japan is now trying to build up large oil reserves for use if Middle Eastern supplies are again cut. That means building more storage tanks, a project that encountered increasing opposition since the Mizushima oil shokku. As the influential daily Mainichi Shimbun editorialized: "The myth that storage tanks spell no pollution has now collapsed...
...Communists plan to keep the Premier on the defensive. Presumably, they will try to goad Tanaka into disastrous faux pas. Presumably also they will needle him about his yeasty private business and personal interests; he has made questionable land deals and one Tokyo newspaper, the Mainichi Daily News, charged that some of those deals involved a former Tokyo geisha named Kazuko Tsuji, who is alleged to have been Tanaka's mistress and the mother of two of his children...
Only university graduates and those about to receive degrees are eligible, and competition is almost literally cutthroat for spots on the national dailies: Asahi (circ. 6,000,000), Yomiuri (5,800,000), Mainichi (4,700,000), Sankei (1,900,000) and Nihon Keizai (1,400,000). Disappointed candidates have been known to commit suicide...