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...press a cause celebre. Story after story has likened the fallen business leaders to martyred warriors. Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest daily newspaper, ran a feature under these scary headlines: SUDDEN DEATHS OF CORPORATE HEADS; DISEASE-FREE SOLDIERS UNDER HEAVY STRESS FROM RECESSION AND THE STRONG YEN. The Sunday Mainichi referred to the trend as "death in combat...
...Diana fever should be kept in moderation and not allowed to become too excessive," cautioned the Tokyo Mainichi Simbun editorial. But the message of restraint was lost on even the writer's own newspaper, which festooned its pages with extravagant coverage of the six-day visit to Japan of Britain's Prince Charles and Diana. In Tokyo, 92,000 people showed up to catch a glimpse or a snapshot of the royal couple's motorcade. Diana, who left a wake of look-alike haircuts wherever she went, participated in a tea ceremony, donned an elegant kimono in Kyoto and attended...
...government reacted quickly. In an interview with the Tokyo daily Mainichi Shimbun, Marcos called the airline workers' statements "altogether unfounded - lies." Declared Rodolfo Jimenez, counsel for the AVSECOM witnesses, of Ba lang's testimony: "It amounts to nothing...
...Japanese newspaper field includes four other giants: Asahi Shimbun (circ. 12.1 million), which is Yomiuri's longtime rival; Mainichi (circ. 6.9 million); Sankei (circ. 3.1 million); and the business-oriented Nihon Keizai, or "Nikkei" (circ. 3 million). Though the 119 million Japanese are known as a TV-obsessed society, they buy 68 million copies of 125 daily newspapers, making them perhaps the world's most devoted newspaper readers...
...recent years, the Japanese press has become less of a monolith. All of the Big Three papers are occasionally xenophobic, but Yomiuri has grown conservative and progovernment, positions that Asahi and Mainichi generally do not share. Moderate support of the government reflects a gradual but radical change at Yomiuri, which was built on suspicion toward whoever was in power...