Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...takes in its readers' welfare. It underwrites orphan asylums, conducts a free tuberculosis clinic, distributes Christmas presents to the poor, supports the annual All-Japan Baseball Series, has sponsored concert tours by such foreign artists as Violinist Jascha Heifetz. In the 1923 earthquake that wrecked its own Tokyo plant, Asahi raised 2,000,000 yen ($970,000) for disaster relief...
...dance, and, until his death in 1933 at the age of 83, Japan's most vigorous and imaginative publisher. In the 52 years that lean, white-bearded Murayama ran Asahi, he built it up from a struggling lo?al sheet to a national institution with editions in Osaka, Tokyo and Kokura...
...first publisher to use rotary presses in Japan, the first to install a newspaper-clipping morgue, the first to run a picture supplement. In 1923, Asahi inaugurated Japan's first regular airmail service-with its own fleet of planes-to link the Osaka and Tokyo editions...
Murayama also gave Asahi such a liberal and antimilitarist tone that nationalist gangsters beat him and bombed his house and, in 1936, soldiers with bayonets invaded Asahi's modernistic seven-story Tokyo offices and assaulted some of his successors. In World War II, the militarists "purged" Asahi, but the interlopers were ousted after Japan's surrender...
...managing editor of Tokyo Asahi is Makoto Takano, 47, who was free of any war-party taint. Meticulous and scholarly, Editor Takano landed a job with Asahi in 1929 by winning a competitive examination for graduates of Tokyo Imperial University. He recently spent three months in the U.S. as the guest of the New York Times...