"Shobō, the Asahi Shimbun, and the ""Mainichi Shimbun"", requesting ¥36,000,000 (approx. US$300,000 in 2003) in compensation. On August 23, 2005, Tokyo District Court Judge Akio Doi dismissed the suit on the grounds that ""[the contest] did occur, and was not fabricated by the media"". The judge stated that, although the original newspaper article included ""false elements"", the officers admitted that they had raced to kill 100 people and ""it is difficult to say it was fiction."" Some proofs of killing Chinese POWs (not hand-to-hand fighting) were shown by the defendants, and the court admitted the possibilities of killing POWs by"
"and published an English-language newspaper, the International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shimbun. After ""The Washington Post"" sold their stake in the IHT, it continued being published under the name ""International Herald Tribune/Asahi Shimbun"", but it was discontinued on February 2011. On 30 December 2002 The New York Times Company took control of the paper by buying the 50% stake owned by The Washington Post Company. The takeover ended a 35-year partnership between the two US domestic competitors. The ""Post"" was forced to sell when the ""Times"" threatened to pull out and start a competing paper. As a result, the ""Post"" entered into"
"with the included punch sheet in stereo instead of mono sound. In 1975, Asahi Sonorama established its ""Sonorama Bunko"" imprint, and in September that same year began publication of the magazine ""Manga Shōnen"". Unfortunately, the market for picture books with included records disappeared quickly in the 1980s, so they refocused their attention on the regular publishing business. Between June 21, 2007 and September 30 of the same year, Asahi Sonorama went through bankruptcy liquidation proceedings. The trademarks for ""Sonosheet"" and ""Asahi Sonorama"" were passed to their parent company, Asahi Shimbunsha (publisher of the ""Asahi Shimbun""), and publication rights were handled"
"“Shiragiku” or white chrysanthemum, and Choko (butterfly), “Kichō” or yellow butterfly. Their flight across the Sea of Japan was during the time when Japanese news companies competed hard to publish news faster: two major incidents made them realize that airplane dramatically changed how they received photo negatives from remote area so that they would print the news faster than others. Both ""Asahi Shinbun"" and the ""Mainichi Shimbun"" had struggled to report the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake when they lost train services to carry photo negatives to the head office, which had been evacuated to Osaka. In August 1929, a zeppelin"
"The ""Manila Shimbun"" also refers to an unrelated World War II-era newspaper published by the , which held a monopoly on all wartime print information dissemination for propaganda purposes, including control over the pre-war outlets that were allowed to remain open. Manila Shimbun The , officially called , is a daily broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines written in the Japanese language. Established in May 1992, it is Southeast Asia's first modern-day daily Japanese-language newspaper. Although the newspaper is primarily in Japanese, it also has a section in English. The newspaper and its journalists have won several awards for its news"
"Aera (magazine) Aera is a Japanese weekly magazine, printed in gravure, published by the Asahi Shimbun. The magazine combines photographs and news stories. In May 1988, ""Aera"" replaced ""Asahi Journal,"" a more substantial weekly. The cover story is called ""Person in Focus"". Eiichirō Sakata takes cover photos for ""Aera"", but when the person on the cover is a photographer, it is a self-portrait. The title ""AERA"" is derived from the Latin word that means ""era"" in English, and a backronym said to mean """"Asahi"" Shimbun Extra Research and Analysis."" ""Aera""'s advertisement in the ""Asahi"" features topical ""dajare"" (word play). ""Issue"
"the Asahi apologized, stating that the article contained ""inappropriate descriptions"" and apologized for ""causing trouble"". A third-party Press and Human Rights Committee held in the Asahi Shimbun Company concluded that '""a story on Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto in Shukan Asahi Weekly Magazine has reinforced discrimination"" and ""The story, including its headline, is based on the wrong idea of denying Hashimoto’s integrity as a human being on the basis of his origin. It has lost sight of independent human dignity"". The President of the Asahi Shimbun Publications Hideo Kotoku resigned, and the company demoted the editor in chief of Shukan Asahi"
"number and names in Japanese and roman script."" Aera (magazine) Aera is a Japanese weekly magazine, printed in gravure, published by the Asahi Shimbun. The magazine combines photographs and news stories. In May 1988, ""Aera"" replaced ""Asahi Journal,"" a more substantial weekly. The cover story is called ""Person in Focus"". Eiichirō Sakata takes cover photos for ""Aera"", but when the person on the cover is a photographer, it is a self-portrait. The title ""AERA"" is derived from the Latin word that means ""era"" in English, and a backronym said to mean """"Asahi"" Shimbun Extra Research and Analysis."" ""Aera""'s advertisement in"
"Akira had deemed the photo to be of poison gas and he was introduced as “a historian and former army officer who is putting forward proof-positive research of chemical warfare in the Sino-Japanese War”. However, it was soon after questioned in a news report by the Sankei Shimbun whether it might be just a smoke screen, and later the same photograph was checked by volume 9 of the series ""Ketteiban Showa Shi"" (""Showa History: The Definitive Guide"") published by Mainichi Shimbun in May 1984, and it was determined that there was nothing like poison gas in it. However, Asahi Shimbun"
"Asahi Graph , also known as The Asahi Picture News, was a Japanese weekly pictorial magazine that ran from 1923 until 2000. ""Asahi Graph"" started on 25 January 1923 as a daily feature from Asahi Shinbunsha (publisher of ""Asahi Shinbun"" and soon also of Asahi Camera); this ran until 1 September 1923 when it was stopped by the major earthquake in Tokyo. It was back as a weekly from 14 November. In 1926 it was joined by ""Asahi Graphic"" (朝日グラフィック) which the Osaka branch of Asahi Shinbunsha had been publishing since 2 January 1921. ""Asahi Graph"" survived World War II"
"Asahi Sonorama Asahi Sonorama was created as a division of Asahi Shimbunsha on September 9, 1959 under the name ""Asahi Sonopress"". It was initially established to record interviews, news, crime scene investigations, and articles on a variety of topics, and then release them on tape and sonosheets in the audio recording magazine ""Asahi Sonorama"" (from whence the company got its name). While doing this, the company also began publishing other magazines, manga collections, and novels. Even though the sound quality of sonosheets was lower than that of vinyl records, the sonosheets were flexible and could last a long time. Asahi"
"and reemerged as something of a Japanese equivalent of the US magazine ""Life"". (""Mainichi Graph"", from Asahi's rival Mainichi Shinbunsha, was similar.) The last regular issue of the magazine is dated 13 October 2000. Asahi Graph , also known as The Asahi Picture News, was a Japanese weekly pictorial magazine that ran from 1923 until 2000. ""Asahi Graph"" started on 25 January 1923 as a daily feature from Asahi Shinbunsha (publisher of ""Asahi Shinbun"" and soon also of Asahi Camera); this ran until 1 September 1923 when it was stopped by the major earthquake in Tokyo. It was back as"
"Hokkaido Shimbun The , which is often abbreviated as , is a Japanese language daily newspaper published mainly in Hokkaidō, Japan by . As of November 2006, its morning edition has a circulation of 1,208,175. It was first published in Sapporo in 1887. At a 2014 year-end party a part-time nurse at the paper was sexually harassed by two members of the staff from the paper's general affairs department. Two months later she killed herself, after sending criticisms of the paper to 13 news organisations. The woman's family considered the paper to be responsible, and filed criminal complaints against the"
"by University of Hawai'i at Manoa Professor Dennis M. Ogawa and the ""Hawaii Times"" Photo Archives Foundation. The collection is currently being processed for public access. Nippu Jiji The , later published as the Hawaii Times, was a Japanese-English language newspaper based in Honolulu, Hawai'i. Established as the Yamato Shimbun by Shintaro Anno in 1895, the paper began as a six-page semi-weekly printed on a lithograph machine, and changed hands four times before being taken over by Yasutaro ""Keiho"" Soga in 1905. Soga changed the name of the paper to the ""Nippu Jiji"", Japanese for ""newspaper for telling timely news,"""
"the similarly titled ""Weekly Asahi"" (which is owned by the also-unrelated ""Asahi Shimbun""). The ""Asahi Geino"" has been criticized for attacking Japan's sex education while at the same time publishing nude photographs and sex-related articles and stories. Weekly Asahi Geinō , often shortened to simply Asahi Geinō or , is a shūkanshi founded by Hirotomo Takei and published by Tokuma Shoten in Japan. It was first published under the title in January 1946, though the title and size were changed to the current one in October 1956. The longest-running manga in the world by a single author, ""Sennin Buraku"" by"
"Japanese press until 1971, when Japanese journalist Katsuichi Honda brought the issue to the attention of the public with a series of articles written for ""Asahi Shimbun"", which focused on interviews with Chinese survivors of the World War II occupation and massacres. In Japan, the articles sparked fierce debate about the Nanking Massacre, with the veracity of the killing contest a particularly contentious point of debate. Over the following years several authors argued the case over whether the Nanking Massacre even occurred, with viewpoints on the subject also being a predictor for whether they believed the contest was a fabrication."
"Kimura Ihei Award The is a Japanese photographic award that attracts the attention of the mass media and book-buyers. The award has been given every year since 1975 (except 1983) by the Asahi Shimbun Company, publisher of ""Asahi Shimbun"" and the magazine ""Asahi Camera"", in honor of the photographer Ihei Kimura. It is given to one or more new photographers whose work has been exhibited or published during the previous year and is announced in ""Asahi Camera"": its original name, soon shortened, was ""Asahi Kamera Kimura Ihei Shashin-shō"" (). The award is usually given to a single photographer. In 2000,"
"by the publication division of that company. On April 1, 2008, Asahi Shimbunsha spun off its publication division into a subsidiary company, Asahi Shimbun Publications, and Asahi Sonorama is now considered a division of that company. Asahi Sonorama Asahi Sonorama was created as a division of Asahi Shimbunsha on September 9, 1959 under the name ""Asahi Sonopress"". It was initially established to record interviews, news, crime scene investigations, and articles on a variety of topics, and then release them on tape and sonosheets in the audio recording magazine ""Asahi Sonorama"" (from whence the company got its name). While doing this,"
"created by others, the most well known being his adaptation of ""Rainbowman"" from 1972 to 1973. In 1978, he published his first original series, ""Nine"", in ""Weekly Shōnen Sunday"". He published two other original series, ""Hiatari Ryōkō!"" from 1979 to 1981 in ""Weekly Shōjo Comic"", and ""Miyuki"" from 1980-1984 in ""Shōnen Big Comic"". Adachi became a household name with the publication of his series ""Touch"" from 1981 to 1986 in ""Weekly Shōnen Sunday"". In 1982, ""Hiatari Ryōkō!"" was adapted into a live action TV drama series. The following year, 1983, was a big year for Adachi. He received the 28th"
"two staff members. Hokkaido Shimbun The , which is often abbreviated as , is a Japanese language daily newspaper published mainly in Hokkaidō, Japan by . As of November 2006, its morning edition has a circulation of 1,208,175. It was first published in Sapporo in 1887. At a 2014 year-end party a part-time nurse at the paper was sexually harassed by two members of the staff from the paper's general affairs department. Two months later she killed herself, after sending criticisms of the paper to 13 news organisations. The woman's family considered the paper to be responsible, and filed criminal"
"treating the Korean minority. Shortly after his death on May 4, 1987, a letter was sent to Kyodo News Agency from an unknown group called Sekihotai claiming responsibility for Kojiri's death. From the letter it states ""We do not accept anyone who betrays Japan. We sentence all ""Asahi Shimbun"" employees to death."" Tomohiro Kojiri was killed on a Sunday night, May 4, 1987, at the ""Asahi Shimbun"" bureau in Nishinomiya. He was murdered by a suspected extremist group called Sekihotai. The suspect was a masked man who entered the building and came onto the second level with a shotgun. During"
"""We'd be better off without the ""Asahi Shimbun"". It's just a foolish talk-shop institution. I hope it goes out of business soon."" On 16 October 2012, ""Shukan Asahi"", a weekly magazine published by a subsidiary of the ""Asahi Shimbun"", described Hashimoto's father as a descendent of burakumin, and affiliated with ""yakuza"" gangs in the past, and committed suicide when Hashimoto was in elementary school. The article also compared Hashimoto to Adolf Hitler and hinted that Hashimoto's policy is influenced by his father's background. Subsequently, Hashimoto refused to speak to journalists from the Shukan Asahi and Asahi Shimbun. On 18 October"
"entire lives, as well to the ""Asahi Shimbun"" bureau and Kojiri. A rightist group calling itself a special unit Sekihōtai of the Japanese Independent Volunteer Army (日本民族独立義勇軍) sent typed letters to Japanese media, claiming it had carried out the murder and threatened to kill other ""anti-Japanese elements"" in the media. At the time of Kojiri's death, the group said that their mission was to ""punish anti-Japanese elements inside and outside Japan"". The letter claimed the attack on Ashai was only the ""first step"". Supposedly the group disappeared in 1990. No one in the group has been identified or arrested. There"
"and opposing the Freedom and People's Rights Movement led in Okinawa by, among others, Jahana Noboru. The Ryūkyū Shimpō company involved itself in development and modernization efforts in the island prefecture, spurring agricultural production and innovation by hosting competitions and exhibitions, and arranged in 1915 for the first demonstration of an airplane in Okinawa. Originally published every other day, it became a daily newspaper in 1906. During World War II, as the result of the national government's Newspaper Unification Policy, the paper was combined with the ""Okinawa Asahi"" and Okinawa Daily News (""Okinawa Nippō"") into the ""Okinawa Shimpō"", and did"
"against his own experience in the army fighting on the battlefield, and analyzing it in the context of Japan’s military history, making special reference to the historical idiosyncrasies of the Japanese army and the latent contempt and discriminatory attitudes of the Japanese people towards China which reinforced them. On 31 October 1984 the morning edition of the Asahi Shimbun published over more than half of its front page a close-up black-and-white photograph of smoke like a wildfire or burning field billowing thickly with the headline of “Definitive photographic proof of poison gas use by the Japanese Imperial Army discovered”. Fujiwara"
"1972, to commemorate the normalisation of relationship with China, ""Asahi Shimbun"", a major liberal newspaper, ran a series on Japanese war crimes in China including the Nanking Massacre. This opened the floodgates to debates which have continued ever since. The 1990s are generally considered to be the period in which such issues become truly mainstream, and incidents such as the Nanking Massacre, Yasukuni Shrine, comfort women, the accuracy of school history textbooks, and the validity of the Tokyo Trials were debated, even on television. As the consensus of Japanese jurists is that Japanese forces did not technically commit violations of"
"which published the critique message to apologize and correct on what they have written. However, in August, Sankei Shimbun and NHK also acquired the same testimony, and from their report, they have found no account on workers escaped from the plant against order from plant's manager. which caused public and other media to cast doubt on accuracy of Asahi's report. Then, in mid-September, when government announce they are going to make the testimony public, Asahi Shimbun changed their altitude, retracted the report and apologize and announced correction over their previous report. As the incident occur merely a month after the"
"Korea ""Shokun"" was right from the start covering the issue heavily. Into the 21st century, Shokun made sweeping criticism of Asahi Shimbun's 2005 attack on NHK for allegedly censoring parts of the proceedings of the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery and like Shinzo Abe accused the newspaper of fabrication. ""Shokun"" was also critical of ""Asahi Shimbun"" journalist Katsuichi Honda. Especially well-known was the debate in the pages of the magazine between Honda and Japanese Jew Isaiah Ben-Dasan, which was actually the secret alter ego of Shichihei Yamamoto, who was the famous author of the bestselling"
"on the Chiyoda Line. Hayashi was the perpetrator and Niimi was his getaway driver. On the way to Sendagi Station, Niimi purchased newspapers to wrap the sarin packets in—the Japan Communist Party's ""Akahata"" and the Sōka Gakkai's ""Seikyo Shimbun"". Hayashi eventually chose to use ""Akahata"". Wearing a surgical mask commonly worn by the Japanese during cold and flu season, Hayashi boarded the first car of southwest-bound 07:48 Chiyoda Line train number A725K. As the train approached Shin-Ochanomizu Station, the central business district in Chiyoda, he punctured one of his two bags of sarin, leaving the other untouched, and exited the"
"day ""Mainichi shinbun"", which began in 1872; the ""Yomiuri shinbun"", which began in 1874; and the ""Asahi shinbun"", which began in 1879. In the 1880s, government pressure led to a gradual weeding out of ""Ōshinbun"", and the ""koshinbun"" started becoming more similar to the modern, ""impartial"" newspapers. Throughout their history, Japanese newspapers have had a central role in issues of free speech and freedom of the press. In the period of ""Taishō Democracy"" in the 1910s to the 1920s, the government worked to suppress newspapers such as the ""Asahi shinbun"" for their critical stance against government bureaucracy that favored protecting"
"1980s political group of a similarly extreme, though less military bent. The full name of the group was Nippon Minzoku Dokuritsu Giyugun Betsudo Sekihōtai, which translates roughly as Blood Revenge Division of the People's Partisan Corps Working for the Independence of the Japanese Race. This group was responsible for the death of reporter, Tomohiro Kojiri, when a member fired a shotgun at the Hanshin Bureau of the ""Asahi Shimbun"" in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture in January 24, 1987. The group also made several threats against the lives of two prime ministers, Yasuhiro Nakasone and Noboru Takeshita, citing as their cause the"
"Cabinet consensus to have the Declaration translated and released to the public, but in a censored version that deleted mentions of an imminent ""utter destruction of the Japanese homeland,"" ""stern justice"" for all war criminals, that disarmed soldiers would be allowed to return home to live constructive lives in peace, and comments about ""self-willed military cliques."" The version given to the public was issued by the ' tightly controlled press' through the Dōmei News Service. In this form it appeared in the morning edition of the ""Asahi Shinbun"" on July 28, 1945, to designate the attitude assumed by the government"
"spun off their book publishing business as Tokuma Shoten. On October 1967, Asahi Performing Arts Publishing and Tokuma Publishing merged and became known as Tokuma Shoten Company. In the same month, the monthly issue of ""Problem novel"" was launched. On July 1978, the monthly publication Animage was launched, and on October 1980, the Tokuma Bunko brand was launched. On March 1984, the company co-produced with Hakuhodo Inc. on a project commemorating the company’s 30th Anniversary. The company also funded films by Studio Ghibli, starting with ""Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind"". On February 1988, the company released the anime"