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Citing an Asahi Shimbun poll that claimed 42% of all Japanese believe that the loss of South Viet Nam to Communism would have no effect on Japan, Reischauer took editors and public alike to task for "serious misapprehensions." In his new "high posture," Reischauer specifically attacked Foreign Editor Minoru Omori of Mainichi Shimbun (circ. 6,400,000), who, after watching a North Vietnamese propaganda film, declared that the U.S. had bombed a leprosarium near Hanoi "for ten days straight." First response to the Reischauer speech was indignation, but eventually Reischauer's reputation paid off. Much greater attention...
...sento owners reckoned without the furious public. PEOPLE FLARE UP IN ANGER, screamed the banner headline in Tokyo's largest daily Yomiuri Shimbun; it reported that irate callers were jamming the paper's switchboard with threats to smash sento windows and protests that "They are infringing on basic human rights!" Cried Mrs. Eiko Takada, 24, mother of three: "How can we keep our babies living without bathing them at least once a day? Is the sento association trying to commit wholesale murder of babies?" Declared Mrs. Mumeo Oku, the vocal chairwoman of the Tokyo Housewives Association: "These...
Despite the drop in deliveries, the papers held the monthly subscription rate at $1.25; and to their relief, they drew only scattered murmurs of complaint. At Asahi Shimbun, the country's biggest daily (circ. 5,100,000), only 20 or so subscribers, said an executive, "registered unhappiness." By such evidence of reader imperturbability, the association was encouraged to hint that even greater deprivations are in store. Before the year is out, said a spokesman, the Sunday paper in its entirety, morning and evening, may be a thing of the past in Japan...
...city room of Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun (Rising Sun Newspaper) have always enjoyed a welcome insulation from meddling. Co-Founder Ryohei Murayama believed firmly that the editorial content of his paper belonged to the editors alone, and with that formula he built the paper into the largest in Japan (present circ. 4,700,000). Before he joined his ancestors in 1933, Murayama tried to make sure that his no-meddling policy would survive: he vested control of the paper in a board of directors drawn from Asahi's ranks. But that same year meddling began. Although Asahi...
Booted. The most prevalent explanation was that Asahi Shimbun's Moscow correspondent, Takeo Kuba, had imperfectly translated Russian cablese KHRUSHCHEV ZAKONCHIL (has ended it), with which Tass had wound up its transmission of a Khrushchev speech. According to this theory, Kuba misread it as KHRUSHCHEV SKONCHALSIA (Khrushchev dead) and cabled the news forthwith. However, at week's end this explanation was exploded by a report from a German TV network that its Hamburg office had received a similar bogus message, save that it was signed "Britinform," cablese for the British Information Service in Bonn...