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Still in Washington are Kurt Sell of Germany's D.N.B.; Masuo Kato and Clarke Kawakami of Japan's Domei; Kenji Kauno of the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi Shimbun. The little man who is no longer there is Count Leone Fumasoni-Biondi of Italy's Stefani Agency, stationed in Washington since 1932-a dark, soft-mannered gentleman whose ancestors have been Vatican officials for four centuries, whose uncle, Cardinal Fumasoni-Biondi, once Apostolic Delegate to the U.S., now holds the Vatican's Office for the Propagation of the Faith. The Count, in fact, is no Fascist...
...Tokyo press labored mightily to raise Puppet Wang in Japanese esteem. Unlike most other peoples, the Japanese like their statesmen boozy. Several Japanese Premiers have been notoriously copious tosspots. It was therefore a great build-up of Chinese Puppet Wang in the eyes of Japanese when the Tokyo Hochi Shimbun (News) quoted Director Yakichiro Suma of the Japanese Foreign Office Information Service apropos his personal acquaintance with Wang Ching-wei some dozen years ago in Peiping...
...According to this evening the Miyako Shimbun gives one of very interesting news regarding the British Government matter. Let try its news as follows stories...
Died. Seiji Noma, 59, Japanese magazine tycoon, publisher of the daily Hochi Shimbun ("Intelligence Newspaper'') and nine magazines with a combined circulation of over 10,000,000, author of numerous tracts and autobiographical sketches (Secrets of Success in Life, Talks on Mental Training, Noma of Japan); of heart disease; in Tokyo...
...magazines comprise some 70% of the total Nipponese output. In book publishing it is the birthplace of mass production in Japan with best sellers passing the million mark. Founder Seiji Noma has been compared to Newnes, Northcliffe, Hearst, Curtis. Since 1930 he has been head of the Tokyo Hochi Shimbun ("Intelligence Newspaper"), oldest and one of the most influential Japanese dailies. This book is his autobiography, written in English by his friend, Shunkichi Akimoto. Unusually frank, it reveals a man who seems to represent his people, combining Western push with Eastern fatalism, occidental morals with oriental philosophy...