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besu-boro is a game brought to Japan by the nation's biggest newspaper publisher, Matsutaro Shoriki, 78. If a man fails to banto, it's a sutoraiki. (See PRESS...
...ever-snow," a marine theater for bubbly underwater revues, an open-air music bowl seating 5000, a 120-ft. parachute jump, even an orchard where customers will be able to pluck fresh fruit right off the trees. It is an almost absurdly grandiose undertaking, but egg-bald Publisher Matsutaro Shoriki, 78, who dreamed it up, is not used to doing anything on a scale smaller than cosmic. "The people of Japan," says Shoriki, "expect Shoriki to do things bigger and better than anyone else...
Pray Boru! Immodest as his words may sound, Shoriki is right. His optometrists consider him terribly myopic, but time after time he has proved himself dazzlingly farsighted. In the 1930s he introduced besuboru to Japan by bringing Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx and Lefty O'Doul to the Orient for a barnstorming tour. An ultranationalist fanatic later hefted a broadsword and hacked a 16-in. scar into the left side of his head for permitting foreigners like the Bambino to desecrate sacred Meiji Stadium, but Shoriki went on to form Japan's first professional baseball league...
...that, Shoriki is also Japan's biggest newspaper publisher. The Yomiuri, a dying daily with a circulation of 40,000 when he bought it with borrowed money in 1924, is now tops in Tokyo, with 2,440,000.* His Hochi Shimbun (circ. 600,000) is the country's biggest sports daily. With two other dailies and three magazines, Shoriki's empire grossed $74.5 million last year, and though post-tax profits were a rice-paper-thin $550,000, he had no complaint. Shoriki's television ventures in Tokyo and Osaka netted $2,300,000, while...
Ironically, the Japanese press is largely owned by wealthy conservatives such as Mainichi's Chikao Honda, Yomiuri's Matsutaro Shoriki, and Asahi's Nagataka Murayama, who secretly sympathize with Kishi and the Conservative cause. But they are journalistic eunuchs, interested mainly in profit, who have literally surrendered their papers to the hundreds of young liberal "intellectuals" in Japanese newsrooms. Espousing no cause but that of full-throated antagonism to the party in power, these leftists not only incite to riot but often themselves join the rioters. Last week, when a part of the mob broke...