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What It Means. When the agreement was finally initialed, much of the world reaction was highly emotional. Japan, the only country to have been an atomic target, was most enthusiastic of all. Sang Tokyo's biggest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun: "Sayonara, Mushroom Clouds." IT'S A TRIUMPH! headlined London's Daily Express. In the name of Pope Paul, the Vatican's L'Osservatore Romano called the Moscow accord "in harmony with the profound and universal wishes of mankind...
...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...
...left, how to agitate in print. Their cells grew everywhere: 250 congress members on Tokyo's biggest paper, Asahi (circ. 5,000,000); 190 in the Kyodo News Agency, notorious among Western newsmen for its leftist tinge; So on Mainichi (circ. 3,560,000), 50 on Yomiuri (circ...
...paid demonstrators shed blood to keep Dwight Eisenhower out of Japan, seven of Tokyo's most influential daily newspapers jointly denounced such goings-on. "We cannot condone violence," cried Tokyo's Asahi Shinbun (circ. 5,000,000). "Impermissible under any circumstances," echoed Yomiuri...
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...