Search

The article presents information on the increasing pollution at Fuji, a small city near Mount Fuji in Japan. It is stated that the city has several smoky factories whose fumes are making Mount Fuji brown in color. Everyday, Fuji's 150 paper mills pour 2,000,000 tons of raw waste into Tagonoura port's waters, due to which Pulp sludge has settled on the floor of the port, reducing the depth of the channel from 30 feet to 18 feet.

The article focuses on the growth of Tokyo, Japan-based "Nikon Keizai Shimbun" journal. It is considered as the Wall Street Journal of Japan's business world which gives most of its editorial space to business and economic affairs. The journal's progress starts after the World War II as there is a growing national interest in business and financial affairs in the country. In 1941, the journal's circulation reaches 120,000.

The article focuses on economic difficulties faced by Japanese newspapers in the 1950s. It states that high degrees of competition among Japanese dailies affected ratios between cost and revenues coupled with low levels of newspaper subscription. It also says that the Japanese no longer served its responsibility to promote or attack any political opinion which is a main characteristic of democracy.

The article reports on a campaign launched by Shimbun Oyobi Shimbunkishi, a trade paper of the newspapermen of Japan, to clean up the advertising of newspapers in Japan in cooperation with the Japanese Institute of Journalists.

The article focuses on the impacts of pollution in Japan after the country reached a high degree industrialization in the 1970s. It states that the Japanese government released an Environmental White Paper which reveals that 4 billion dollars annually is spent by Japan in alleviating the environmental impacts of industries. It also adds that the country produces an annual rate of 35 million tons of garbage and that new pollution-related illnesses such as Minamata disease have emerged.

The article focuses on the Communist-led strike in Hokkaido, Japan headed by Union leader Haruo Yokoyama. It says that the strike started to get worse when Oji Paper Co. Ltd. in Tomakomai persuaded 1,000 strikers to transfer to a company union. Yokoyama organized motor bicycle patrols with the help of 30 hardbitten Communists to ride by the houses of the new union men. It adds that they made a specialty known as the wringer wherein they strip a company man and twist his testicles.

The article explores efforts by husband and wife sculptors Isamu Noguchi and Shirley Yamaguchi to help Japan learn to appreciate modern art. The couple has exhibited Western-style abstractions in the city of Kamakura, Japan, wherein over 130 new objects were on display, including paper lanterns, ceramics and abstract sculptures. To help spread his modern ideas, Noguchi, together with his wife, made abstract designs for the railings on two bridges for Hiroshima. A Japanese tradition Noguchi has been reworking is that of the clay statute called haniwa.

The article focuses on the political condition in Japan and the role of the country's press in any social movement. It highlights the protest of thousands of students over the renewal of the U.S. mutual security treaty and the trip of Prime Minister Eisaku Sato to Vietnam. Issues such unfair coverage by the press and the concept about press solidarity are discussed.

The article reports on the controversy over Russian Ambassador to Japan Victor L. Kopp's speech describing the Japanese-Russian treaty as a scrap of paper. According to some news reports, Kopp said he would work in Japan to promote the Bolshevik cause of world revolution and to utilize Japan as a tool to force U.S. recognition of Russia. The Russian Embassy denied that Kopp ever said such things while Kopp refused to make a statement to clarify his position.

The article focuses on the suicide pact of the couple Aishinkakura Eisei and Takemichi Okubo, who are students at Gakushuin University in Tokyo, Japan, after Eisei's mother refused on their plan to get married. It mentions that the couple went to Amagi Mountain where Okubo shot Eisei in the temple and then killed himself. It states that the lovers enclosed the trimmings of their hair and fingernails in a paper to serve as mementos for their families.

The article reports on the lantern-making industry of Japan. It claims that the industry's popularity around the world was credited to Emperor Meiji, the grandfather of Emperor Hirohito. The lanterns are designed to change candlelight into globes of muted color. The uses of the lanterns include during funeral processions, nighttime leisurely walks and advertising displays.

The article discusses the issues surrounding the influence of the Japanese press in stirring the howling rioters in June 1960 in Japan. It states that the attack of the press against Premier Nobuske Kishi and the U.S.-Japanese security treaty has stirred the demonstration. Matsutaro Shoriki of Yomiuri claims that the press activities and influence of its members are not factors to cause an alarm.

The article focuses on the celebration of the 13th anniversary of the A-bomb drop in the Nakajima Park in Hiroshima, Japan. It says that 30,000 Japanese have massed together at the Park wherein they brought wreaths and incense sticks to remember thousandths of unidentified victims. Hiroshima's Mayor Tadao Watanabe has released 800 doves and is hopeful that the events symbolizes that Japan have never forgotten the people who are concerned to the bombing.

The article offers information on the job recruitment for newspaper journalists in Japan. It states that aspiring journalists will must first take examinations similar to the civil service test to be able to be hired in one of the five national and 110 local newspapers. It says that the examinations for Japanese journalism are held every July, wherein failed candidates have been known to kill their selves. It adds that among the national daily newspapers are "Asahi," "Yomiuri," and "Mainichi."

The article focuses on the production and popularity of bangasa, a traditional Japanese parasol or umbrella. It states that an improved version of bangasa was sold in stores in Japan based on the specifications of U.S. importer and designer John Reynolds. It discusses the durability and design of bangasa. It notes that bangasa was first caught on campus at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts.

The article features the poetry writing ability of a prisoner named Akito Shima in Japan. The director of Japan's prison rehabilitation program revealed that poetry writing has been considered as an effective form of rehabilitation in Japanese prisons. It also presents some lines from the poems by amateur poet Shima.

The article features Katsushika Hokusai, a Japanese painter. It states that he was one of the finest and the most appealing painters Japan has ever produced. Proof of his talent could be seen in September 1960 at the Smithsonian Institution's Freer Gallery. It also discusses his paintings and mentions that Hokusai's creations do have an ethereal quality that makes them seem to hang in midair.

The article focuses on the announcement of Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi to resign after his three-year fight for the revision of the U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty. Kishi said that he wanted fresh public atmosphere that is why he decided to resign but he warned that the Liberal Democrats must first agree upon his successor. The article also explores the continued demonstrations and protests against the treaty.

The article focuses on the crime committed by Shigeru Murai, owner of a textile sales company in Tokyo, Japan, wherein he accumulated 400,000 dollars unpaid bills and he along with his employees conspired with the Communists. It says that through the guidance of Murai, the Nippon Textile Research Institute was become under the control of the Communist. It mentions that Murai confessed that he set up credit companies in order to generate cash that will be used to fund the Communist Party.

The article profiles manufacturing and merchandising genius Konosuke Matsushita, who has built Japan's biggest appliance business from nothing. It notes that Matsushita's success at Matsushita Electric Co has made him the biggest yen billionaire in Japan. It adds that Matsushita managed to exist alongside the Japanese zaibatsu by slipping into a range of consumer goods through Western-style salesmanship.

The article reports on the protests of Japanese against the move of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi the revision of the U.S.-Japan Treaty. It states that demonstrators fought against police and tried to prevent Kishi to meet with U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower. It indicates that the opponents protest that the treaty revision implies commitment of Japan to support all U.S. moves in the Pacific.

The article focuses on the economic growth and development of Japan. The per capita income of Japan, an indicator of economic growth is rapidly increasing in comparison with other developed nations. Increase in trade including increase in exports have led Japan towards Urbanization. Tokyo, the capital of Japan has been the main source of attraction for tourism which is a big contributor towards the economic development.

The article focuses on the fear of earthquakes and the concept of tembatsu in Tokyo, Japan which has already been victimized by one of the most devastating earthquakes in September 1923. The prediction by seismologist Christopher H. Scholz of Columbia University that the Tokyo region might have a major earthquake in the next few years has been downplayed as about as accurate as Chinese astrology by seismologist Tsuneji Rikitake who concedes that such danger is possible. Tokyo Sociologist Ikutaro Shimizu states that the city has transformed itself into a state of chaos after the 1923 quake. The concept that good times are followed by disaster is emphasized by tembatsu.

The article highlights the market invasion of Europe by the Japanese. In Italy, the Japanese captured 28% of its motorcycle market and 48% of its tape-recorder market. In West Germany, half the cameras sold are Japanese. In the nine common market countries, Japan has cornered almost three-quarters of the fast growing sales of small electronic calculators, office machines and optical equipment. The reason of Japanese in building factories all over the continent is the international pressure on the Japanese to spread around their vast foreign currency reserves which already stand at 15 billion U.S. dollars. The Japanese business success in the continent is the result of careful, detailed planning and attention to what the consumer wants.

The article deals with the publication of the proposals of the U.S. about the future of Japan by newspapers in Moscow, Russia in November 1950. Among the plans of the U.S. for Japan include making Japan as an equal in the society of free peoples with the hope of establishing the country to a strong ally in the fight against Communism. The other suggestions include the aim of the U.S. to obtain a United Nations (U.N.) trusteeship over the Ryukyu and Bonin Islands. It is noted that U.S. diplomats were already drafting a reply to Russia's arguments.