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...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...
Unlike U.S. journalists, who are hired by the whim or good judgment of their editors, Japanese journalists are traditionally hired on the basis of formal examinations. Recently, 488 selected applicants for ten reporting jobs on Tokyo's Asahi Shimbun demonstrated their ability at composition, foreign language, Japanese vocabulary, dictation & rewrite...
Quivering Detail. Most of the action took place at the "Tokyo Correspondents' Club" at No. 1 Shimbun Alley, the official billet for foreign correspondents. Hoberecht got most of its residents, and even its houseboys, between his covers. Added attraction: some sensuous illustrations by Artist Tsuguharu Fujita, billed as the first kissing scenes ever to adorn a Japanese novel. Since Japanese are unaccustomed to Western-style embraces, Hoberecht went into what he calls "great, quivering detail." (To one hot-blooded chapter the publishers added a solemn subtitle: The Ethics of Kissing) Last week, as his royalties piled up from Tokyo...
...done nothing about the size of Japanese newspaper staffs, except to be astonished at them. Tokyo's biggest paper, Asahi Shimbun ("Rising Sun Newspaper"), which has a 3,350,000 circulation, is only a two-page paper now-but has an editorial staff of 1,100, of whom 500 are reporters. Prewar Asahi had a fleet of 80 automobiles, 40 gliders, 20 airplanes. Now it is down to seven wheezy cars, and insists that one reason it needs a big staff is that its men take so long to get around. Reporters start at a meager...
...Mainichi Shimbun, the first prize went...