Word: shimbun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most surprising sign of Japan's new hard times is the slump in the electronics industry. For the six months that ended Sept. 30, Toshiba's pretax profits plunged 80% from the same period in the previous year. At Fujitsu, Japan's top computermaker, profits fell 79%. Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Japan's leading business newspaper, last month reported that for the first time since 1975, Hitachi, Mitsubishi Electric and Fuji Electric planned temporary layoffs, shocking workers and managers in the industry. The companies denied the report, but rumors persist. Says Daisaku Kodama, an Osaka-based subcontractor for Matsushita Electric Industrial...
...month, besides serving as host to the Tokyo summit, Nakasone has presided over ceremonies marking Emperor Hirohito's 60th year on the throne, and feted the Prince and Princess of Wales during their six-day visit to Japan. A new poll released last week by the Tokyo daily Yomiuri Shimbun showed support for the Prime Minister at a robust...
...well as in the U.S. and other countries), including Nagano's 63- year-old invalid mother. Outraged viewers deluged newspapers and television stations with calls demanding to know why reporters and photographers had not tried to stop the killers or even summon the police. Japan's largest daily, Yomiuri Shimbun, criticized the journalists for putting their professional duties before humanitarian concerns, adding that "the mass media should search their souls." The suspect in another fraud investigation decided he was not taking any chances. The day after Nagano's murder, he surrendered to Tokyo police and was safely put behind bars...
Shigeto Tsuru '35, who is in town for the 50th reunion of his undergraduate class, has for the past decade been editorial adviser of The Asa n Shimbun, a Tokyo-based newspaper with a circulation of close to eight million...
...Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev might visit the U.S. this year. Late last week the Japanese daily Asahi Shimbun quoted Viktor Afanasyev, editor in chief of Pravda, as saying that a "strong possibility" exists that Gorbachev will address the United Nations General Assembly in New York City in September. There was no word on whether Gorbachev would also meet with President Reagan, who proposed a summit meeting in a letter to Gorbachev following the death of Konstantin Chernenko...