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...pigeons have dovetailed nicely into less somber editorial projects. When Crown Prince Akihito sailed on his first overseas tour, Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun (circ. 3,800,000) sent along a photographer and four birds; one brought a royal picture home from 250 miles at sea for a front-page scoop. Wings beat for Mainichi again when U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall climbed Mount Fuji in 1961. Halfway to the summit, a cameraman released two pigeons which covered the 70 air miles to Tokyo just in time for the evening edition. The Mainichi flock scored its latest coo last October...
...left exclusively to poets. Japanese of all backgrounds like to compose spare, highly stylized verses* whose aim is to evoke a moment or a mood, rather than convey a moral or tell a story, as in Western poetry. One of the top features of Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun (circ. 3,568,000) is its Sunday selection of the ten best haiku and waka culled from some 500 it receives weekly. Last week an amateur poet named Akito Shima achieved the rare distinction of having had his work printed in the paper's poetry section for 17 successive weeks...
...Communist line, how to flatter personalities sympathetic to the left, how to agitate in print. Their cells grew everywhere: 250 congress members on Tokyo's biggest paper, Asahi (circ. 5,000,000); 190 in the Kyodo News Agency, notorious among Western newsmen for its leftist tinge; So on Mainichi (circ. 3,560,000), 50 on Yomiuri (circ...
Ikeda was born in Hiroshima prefecture, is descended from six generations of wealthy sake makers. In early deference to the family business, he developed a prodigious capacity for the native drink (the Tokyo newspaper Mainichi noted candidly last week that "he has been on the wagon now for one month"). He became a hard-working government tax expert. In World War II, he bossed the tax bureau's head office in Tokyo, raising revenues for the Imperial armies. During the U.S. occupation of Japan, he proved to be U.S. Economic Adviser Joseph Dodge's most stubborn and effective...
Ironically, the Japanese press is largely owned by wealthy conservatives such as Mainichi's Chikao Honda, Yomiuri's Matsutaro Shoriki, and Asahi's Nagataka Murayama, who secretly sympathize with Kishi and the Conservative cause. But they are journalistic eunuchs, interested mainly in profit, who have literally surrendered their papers to the hundreds of young liberal "intellectuals" in Japanese newsrooms. Espousing no cause but that of full-throated antagonism to the party in power, these leftists not only incite to riot but often themselves join the rioters. Last week, when a part of the mob broke...