Word: yomiuri
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...Japan, which is overwhelmed by environmental woes, the Nixon stand was warmly praised. Said Tokyo's Daily Yomiuri last week: "Nixon's war on pollution is probably the first time in world history that such conscious and systematic thinking has been directed at protecting the environment. Compared with the strong and decisive stand by the American government, our government emerges as weak and compromising...
Died. Matsutaro Shoriki, 84, Japanese newspaper publisher who brought the grand old game of besuboru to his homeland; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. In 1924, Shoriki purchased the dying Tokyo daily Yomiuri (circ. 40,000) and as a promotional gimmick sponsored visits by American baseball teams featuring such stars as Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth. The tours were overwhelming successes, and the game soon became as popular in Japan as in the U.S. Today, Yomiuri's circulation is 5.1 million, in no small part because of the thoroughness of its baseball coverage...
...Almost daily, the planes hurdle Japan's clogged highways to cover fires, floods, shipping accidents and other news events and still return in time to meet competitive deadlines. "They are as indispensable as the walkie-talkie and the reporter's pencil," claims Shiro Hara, managing editor of Yomiuri. Many of the aircraft are equipped to process film in flight, then transmit it to newspaper offices via mobile radiophoto equipment. When a disaster breaks, speed is so important that most of the papers' airport mechanics are also trained to fill in as photographers. The dailies even use vacant...
Some U.S. newspapers own aircraft, but none has so many or uses them so regularly in news gathering as the largest Japanese dailies. Yomiuri's Hara has a point when he needles the major use of company planes by U.S. publishers. "We never fly executives-only reporters and photographers," he says...
...Asahi has nine aircraft, Yomiuri eight, Mainichi seven, Chunichi five, Sankei...