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Exclusive dispatches flashed from China's capital. Nanking, to Japan's leading newsorgans Nichi-Nichi (Tokyo) and Mainichi (Osaka), delivered the first shock to 4.000.000 slant-eyed readers. They read that a smart Japanese journalist claimed to have caught U. S. Minister to China Nelson Trusler Johnson in a piece of "backdoor diplomacy" as amazing as it would be unfriendly to Japan...
Died. Hikoichi Motoyama, 79, dean of Japanese journalism, of apoplexy, in Osaka, Japan...
...Japan, brought to the Samurai (military gentry) family of Motoyama in Kumamoto a son, named Hikoichi. In time he was graduated from Keio University, became successively a government official, financial manager of a newspaper, director of 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...
Guiding policies, occasionally writing editorials. Motoyama was chiefly interested in the financial and business direction of his newspapers. His handsome, patrician, heavily-lined face, kindly and visionary, was in evidence at his Osaka office until the end. Though his mind and heart roamed the earth, he stayed always in the Far East. Said he: "I am too old to see the world, so I see it through the eyes of my young men, who go everywhere...
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...