III. JOINING YOMIURI NEWSPAPER —Before joining Yomiuri, I heard you worked for another newspaper. Yes, I spent a short time at a newspaper called Niroku Shibun. Yomiuri’s Nakamitsu told me he would hire me, but things stopped there because it was a time of bad unemployment. And then an acquantance advised me to work at […]

II. MY TIME AT FORMER SUIKO HIGH SCHOOL –Looking at your history, one can see that although you entered Yomiuri in 1935, before that you participated in the student movement with the movie director Tadashi Imai during your time at former Suiko High School (now Ibaraki University), and you were arrested by the Special Higher […]

PREFACE Looking towards the 50th anniversary of the end of the war, we can see continual progress of plans for an “Emergency Government” that remind one of the tyranny of the pre-war government that organized itself under the same pretext. Before the war under the rule of the Konoe Cabinet’s Imperial Rule Assistance Association, the […]