Word: matsutaro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Matsutaro Shoriki, 74, had tried the same sort of approach seven years ago when his TV network was just getting started in black and white. He spotted 220 RCA receivers in parks, railroad stations, back alleys. Today, with about 4,000,000 black-and-white receivers across Japan, NTV earns a profit of more than $1,000,000 a year...
...Japan no single daily is as big as the Tokyo edition of Yomiuri* (circ. 2,100,000). And no publisher is more flamboyant than Yomiuri's swaggering, marble-domed Matsutaro Shoriki. 69, who also owns eight big magazines and Japan's only commercial TV network. Once, for a lively story, Publisher Shoriki sent a team of reporters "down as far as you possibly dare" into an offshore volcano crater. When they returned and reported that the crater was full of the bodies of suicides, Shoriki built a platform overlooking the crater, ran excursion boats to the site...