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Last week Abyssinia's Foreign Minister Gueta Herouy suddenly announced that "because of the machinations of a certain power" the match had suddenly been called off. These were weasel words to Tokyo's Nichi Nichi which frankly announced that the machinations were those of Bcnito Mussolini...
Died. Dr. Inazo Ota Nitobe, 71. "Father of Japanese Liberalism," editor of the Tokyo Nichi Nichi, onetime (1919-27) undersecretary general of the League of Nations; after an operation following pneumonia, in Victoria, B. C. Educated in the U. S. and Europe, he married a Philadelphia girl, returned to Japan to become a university president and an eloquent apostle of internationalism...
...reclamation projects. At 36 he took over a struggling political daily in Osaka, "Pittsburgh of Japan." Renaming it Mainichi (Every Day), he banished partisanship, began introducing the brisk interest of Western journalism. Japanese liked it so well that he was soon able to buy control of Tokyo's Nichi-Nichi (Day by Day). Last week, with his newspapers grown to a circulation of some 4,000.000 and himself a dean of journalism such as few nations can point to, apoplexy struck Hikoichi Motoyama dead...
Mainichi, Nichi-Nichi and their Asahi (Morning Sun) rivals are smaller than Metropolitan U. S. dailies, contain less advertising. Otherwise, due largely to Publisher Motoyama's pioneering, there is little essential difference. Even Mutt & Jeff, Min & Andy Gump, Smitty, Jiggs & Maggie hurl pots and tongue-lash each other in Japanese. One printing handicap the Japanese have been unable to overcome-lack of a simplified alphabet. Ideographs necessitate much handwork. A picturesque oldtime method of news transportation still lives in Japan. Newshawks and photographers in the field often send back copy and film by carrier pigeon. Besides morning & evening editions...
Mainichi, Nichi-Nichi and Asahi long dominated the Tokyo and Osaka fields. In 1930 a potential rival, Hochi (News), passed into the hands of the man whom Motoyama's death left sitting on Japan's journalistic throne. He is Seiji Noma, "The Magazine King." A big round-faced man with a big ragged mustache. Publisher Noma likes to call himself and be called "The King." He named one of his magazines King. He gives presents, such as scarves, with King stamped all over. Validating the title is the combined circulation of his nine magazines-more than...