Word: shimbun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long ago Tokyo's Shimbun ran a brief review of The Case of General Yamashita (The University of Chicago Press; $4), by A. Frank Reel, a labor lawyer and former U.S. Army captain, who had helped defend the Japanese commander in America's first major war crimes trial. Next day a SCAP officer phoned Shimbun and other Tokyo papers that it would be "advisable" not to mention Reel's book. The Hosei University Press was likewise cautioned not to publish it. The admonitions have been strictly obeyed...
...hefty, even-tempered police chief, 49-year-old Eiji Suzuki. Chief Suzuki started his regime by cleaning up Osaka's formidable gangs of thugs and black-marketeers. When the Communists began making trouble, he went after them with equal vigor. Last July, when a Communist-published kabe shimbun (wall newspaper) published stories charging G.I.s with attacking Japanese women, Suzuki saw his chance. Under an Army directive forbidding falsification of news about the occupation, he jugged 108 Reds, including many of Osaka's Communist officials...
...dangerous precedent," warned Chinese Justice Mei Ju-ao. Even some Japanese were cautious in praise of the decision. "We are keenly alive to the honor of a supreme court of a democracy which does not rest content unless every doubtful point is eliminated," editorialized Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun, "but what concerns us most is the issue of how to safeguard the world against war crimes...
...Nippon Keizai Shimbun, a conservative Japanese business journal, reported...
...responsibility of making practice fit the pattern. Aged statesman Yukio Ozaki warned that the Japanese moral code-"based on murder and falsehood"-must be radically altered, predicted that three generations would be needed to educate Japanese to the meaning of the new constitution. Said Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun, as it prepared to publicize and interpret the constitution's text and meaning: "Only when we have created a state or society in which we can get along perfectly well without knowing a single article of the constitution can the new constitution really be said to have been completed...