Word: yomiuri
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...have been exhilarating and bewildering, but Japanese men often think things have gone too far; last week many of them were pondering the plaint of a 42-year-old white-collar worker with an equal-rights problem of his own. Said he in a letter to Tokyo's Yomiuri Shimbun...
...increased trade and a nonaggression pact between the two countries. "Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai met us, warmly shook our hands and patted our backs," glowed one delegate. "The results obtained are just too numerous to mention." Not so starry-eyed was Tokyo's daily Yomiuri Shimbun, which called Mao's proffered sweetmeats "cakes drawn on a piece of paper. Nobody can taste them...
Died. Tsunego Baba, 80, longtime champion of a free Japanese press as president (1945-51) of the nation's third largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun (circ. 2,133,000), of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Tokyo...
Tokyo's big, influential daily Yomiuri (circ. 2,284,902) last week headlined a series of articles on a startling economic theme: "Japan is at the mercy of the blue-eyed foreigners." The blue-eyed foreigners, cried Yomiuri, are U.S. businessmen in Japan, who are charging "exorbitant" royalty fees. Such American companies as Westinghouse, RCA and Caltex have been "very cunning" in their dealings. Concluded Yomiuri: "Japan was not defeated by General MacArthur but by General Electric...
From the U.S. he imported such big-league stars as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx, reported every move they made in Yomiuri. On one tour Ruth hit 18 home runs. Says Shoriki: "Every smack boosted circulation." (Later. Shoriki started the Japanese baseball league, now led by his own Yomiuri Giants.) From the U.S. he also imported the moneymaking journalistic ideas of his good friend, the late William Randolph Hearst...