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...Japan no single daily is as big as the Tokyo edition of Yomiuri* (circ. 2,100,000). And no publisher is more flamboyant than Yomiuri's swaggering, marble-domed Matsutaro Shoriki. 69, who also owns eight big magazines and Japan's only commercial TV network. Once, for a lively story, Publisher Shoriki sent a team of reporters "down as far as you possibly dare" into an offshore volcano crater. When they returned and reported that the crater was full of the bodies of suicides, Shoriki built a platform overlooking the crater, ran excursion boats to the site...
...have just stabbed Matsutaro Shoriki, the unpatriotic publisher, in the neck!" he boasted. "I am a patriot. My name is Katsusuke Nagasaki. I am 28 years old and belong to the Warlike Gods Society...
Stabbed Publisher Shoriki, whose famed Yomiuri is Tokyo's third largest newsorgan, had meanwhile been rushed to hospital, hastily given a blood transfusion. In the eyes of Japanese jingoes his conduct has long merited Death. Not only has Tycoon Shoriki annoyed Japan's dominant dictatorial clique by printing eulogies on Constitutional Government but last year he even went to the extreme of bringing Babe Ruth to Japan just as her jingoes were successfully working up public opinion to believe that the U. S. is the "White Menace...
Inoffensive Mr. Ruth, cheered up & down Japan by frenzied millions of slant-eyed baseball fans, proved a Peace Envoy par excellence (TIME, Nov. 12). Shocked in Manhattan by the news from Tokyo last week, the Babe said: "I am mighty sorry to hear that anything has happened to Mr. Shoriki and I hope he recovers. He wasn't in the game for money, but because he believed baseball a good thing for Japan. To us he was a fine host, full of energy and hustle...