Word: motosada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Founded 59 years ago with the aim of interpreting the awakened nation's "views, sentiments and aspirations to the outside world," the Japan Times was the country's first English-language daily to be started by a Japanese, Motosada Zumoto, secretary to famed Prince Ito. It is still the only independent among the nation's four English-language dailies. The Japan Times before the war had powerful backing from the Mitsubishi and Mitsui trusts and government-linked financial houses. During the war, the Times was subsidized by the Japanese Foreign Office, which used the paper...
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