Press - Post-War

Economic News No. 70

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News excerpts from the Tokyo News (focused on Economic Issues) issued by Tokyo News Service, Ltd. Headlines include: Bonus Goods Ready for Farmers, Voluntary Extra Delivery Expected; Stocks Soar Since Last December, Many Buyers from Provinces; Non-War Suffer's Tax Estimated at ¥6.5 Billion, ¥1.7 Billion in Tokyo Tax Office Area; Railway Traffic Rates to be Upped by About 150%, Passenger Rates in March, Freight April; Largest Locomotive Made in Japan on Sanyo Line; Charcoal Trains to be Run from Akita to Tokyo; Electric Power Generating Stations Planned for Industrial Expansion; 2,303 Cases of Business Enquiries Received by Osaka C. of C. & in from Abroad; The Future of the Fiber Industry; Large Tourist Hotel for Kobe Planned
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1948CE Jan 24th

Economic News No. 62

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News excerpts from the Tokyo News (focused on Economic Issues) issued by Tokyo News Service, Ltd. Headlines include: Yawata Works Output for 1st 10 Days Good in Steel Products & Pig Iron; Construction of 8 Freighters Approved by SCAP Headquarters; Leading Tax Delinquents Listed, Takanaka Komuten Tops List; Shizuoka Tea Production This Year Expected to Reach 6 Million Kan; Radio Receiving Set Output, Bottleneck Power, Coal, Gas, Diatom Etc.; Coal from N. China for 1st Time Since Surrender, Shipment Also Coming from Canada; Water from Lake Biwa Drawn Out to Operate Ujikawa System Power Plants; New Occupation Reported by Police, Man Collecting Empty Purses on Streets; To Boost Ice Production Next Summer by Expanding 25 Factories in Country; Despite Movie Boom, Studios Not Making Much Money; Banknotes Flood City; Causes of Deficits in Gov't Railways, Osaka Bureau's Paper Cost Alone is ¥7.5 Million
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1948CE Jan 15th

Tokyo News No. 4,676-A

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News excerpts from the Tokyo News (focused on Economic Issues) issued by Tokyo News Service, Ltd. Headlines include: Railway Passenger Fares to be Raised 100%, Additional Budget Fixed at ¥4.1 Billion; Hirano Purge is Strange, Satake Charges in Diet Interpellations, Premier Replies; Date of Japan Peace Parley Unknown Foreign Minister Tells Diet; Councilor Asks Government About Street Walkers, Welfare Minister Replies; ¥360,000 Fake Notes Seized in Osaka; Police Mobilized to Track Down "Mass" Poisoner; 500 Dozen Baseballs & 100 Bats to be Presented to Japanese Students By America; 6 Million Yen Worth Cotton Piecegoods Looted by a Gang of 12 Robber; Shikoku Petitions Emperor to Visit the Island; Know Thyself (Letter to the Editor); Summary of News in Japanese Press (items not included in translations)
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1948CE Jan 28th

Tokyo News No. 4,658-A

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News excerpts from the Tokyo News (focused on Economic Issues) issued by Tokyo News Service, Ltd. Headlines include: Counter Measures to be Devised Today by Cabinet Against Hirano Faction; Zenno Action Blow to Socialist Party, Leftists' Strength May be Expanded; Police Officer Warmly Received by Chinese Whom He Aided, But Loses His Pistol, Notebook, Etc.; This Year's Publishing Business, Suffering From Shortage of Printing Paper; A Million-Yen Winning Ticket Cashed in Tokyo for First Time; 100,000-Yen Prize Winner Turns Robber; Grand Shrines at Ise Earn Five Times As Mush As Last Year; Man Wants to be Imprisoned, Saying Life is Hard with Inflation and Housing Shortage; ¥30,000 House & Lot for War Sufferers and Repatriates Planned by Welfare Body; Japan's Political Leaders, Their Character and Action Analyzed; Summary of News in Japanese Press (items not included in translations)
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1948CE Jan 6th

Tokyo News No. 4,656-A

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News excerpts from the Tokyo News (focused on Economic Issues) issued by Tokyo News Service, Ltd. Headlines include: Government Will Cary On With Full Knowledge of Difficulties Ahead, Nishio Tells Shikoku Youths; Food Situation Prospects Brighter This Year Than Last, 200,000 Tons Short Until June; Comment on Current Topics; Disease and Hard Times Drive Man to Suicide in Tochigi Prefecture; Socialist MP is Ousted for Joining New Party Move; World Calendar Movement Gets Under Way in Japan, Aiming at Its Adoption in 1950 With Other Countries; 100 Farmers to be Invited to Tokyo by Hotel Keeper in Appreciation of Their Fulfillment of Delivery Quota; Students' Skating Championship for 10,000 Meters Goes to Kazuhiko Sugawara of Nippon University; Japan's Political Leaders, Their Character and Action Analyzed; Summary of News in Japanese Press (items not included in the translations)
Date: 
1948CE Jan 5th

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