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...responsibility to espouse, attack or even examine the variety of political opinions that are the stuff of democracy. It is in the grip of impartiality gone haywire. Only two of the nation's papers-the daily Communist Akahata (circ. 30,000) and the thrice-monthly Socialist Shakai Shimpo (circ. 80,000)-advance any creed. The rest of the Japanese press has only one policy: to attack the government. The rationalization is that the government is the press's traditional enemy, must be fought even though the papers are remarkably free from official restraint...
...major shipping companies had to resort to short-term loans from commercial banks (with interest as high as 11%) and government loans. Furthermore, shipping rates, which were boosted sky-high in 1950-51 by the Korean war, have dropped down again, and shippers expect a further slide. Warned Shimpo Asao, president of Nippon Yusen Kaisha, one of Japan's biggest shipping companies: "The future is very dark. Until world trade begins expanding there is not much hope for further recovery . . . more Japanese ships will make their way into world ports, but you can't operate...
...necked, German-born G-2 officer Brigadier General Charles A. Willoughby (who changed his name from Von Tscheppe-Weidenbach) sat in his Dai Ichi Building office late one night, scanning proofsheets of the English-language Nippon Times, his eye lit on an editorial reprinted from the Tokyo daily Jiji Shimpo. "Japanese teachers," he read, "have the habit of blind worship for . . . the man in power. . . . They used to endeavor to instill in the minds of their pupils that the Emperor was God. Now they claim that General MacArthur is the Savior.. .. Until the Japanese are cleansed of this servile...
...said Osaka's Jiji Shimpo, one of Japan's prime social problems was to find new jobs for the Princes. There was always the down-to-earth Empress' newly revealed hobby...
...Japan, it is tantamount to treason to criticize the fighting services. Jiji Shimpo ventured...