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Like the fast-moving Journal, Nikkei gives most of its editorial space (75%) to business and economic affairs. It also provides its readers a well-edited daily dose of general news. But there the comparison ends...
...Haiku. Interspersed with Nikkei's business surveys, stock tables and industry profiles are features that seem to stretch its avowed policy to "inform the public of economic affairs." Each 16-page issue, for example, devotes one page to general news, including crime and the weather, one page to sports, another page to culture. Nikkei's art criticism is rated as the best of any newspaper in Japan. And it even finds room for those familiar staples of all Japanese newspapers : a serialized novel and an assortment of haiku, the classic three-line poem whose origins go back centuries...
...business paper that Nikkei excels. There are 136 reporters assigned exclusively to economic beats, covering every facet of commerce, including agriculture (68,000 of Nikkei's readers are farmers). The paper keeps correspondents in Hong Kong, New Delhi, Bonn, Paris, London and New York. Key reporters undergo an intensive two-to three-year training program during which they earn the equivalent of a graduate degree...
Yale-league champion unless Princeton beats Penn in its last scheduled game this week-has a steady, well-integrated machine built around Bob O'Connell. captain and centre, rather than Earl ("Chubby") Nikkei, its leading scorer. Nikkei-more stockily built than the picture of a star basketballer-is not so fast as O'Connell but he has a disconcerting soft throw that on his best night this season piled up 22 points against Penn. Yale's coach, Elmer Ripley, was a crack professional on the Celtics before 1929. Since he went to New Haven-possibly also because...