Kenjiro Ichiriki

Japanese: 一力健治郎 - いちりき・けんじろう

Year of death: November 5, 1929
Year of birth: Bunkyu 3.9.25 (1863.11.6)
A businessman and newspaper owner during the Meiji, Taisho and Showa periods. Born as the third son of Suzuki Sakubei, a western goods wholesaler in Sendai, he was adopted into the Ichiriki family. After graduating from the former Second High School, he was active as a businessman, managing a reforestation company and other businesses. In 1894 he became a member of the Miyagi Prefectural Assembly, and the following year a member of the Sendai City Assembly. In 1896 he purchased the Progressive Party-affiliated Tohoku Nippo from Akiba Chushichi, and in January of the following year he renamed it Kahoku Shimpo and launched it. With impartiality as his company motto, he was the first local paper to establish an English column and declared that the paper would be published without interruption all year round, and was a man of great foresight who helped grow Kahoku Shimpo into the leading local newspaper in the Tohoku region. <References> Kahoku Shimpo: 80 Years

(Mitsuo Igawa)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：昭和4.11.5(1929)
生年：文久3.9.25(1863.11.6)
明治大正昭和時代の実業家,新聞経営者。仙台の洋品問屋鈴木作兵衛の3男として生まれ,一力家の養嗣子となる。旧制二高卒業後,植林会社などを経営し,実業家として活躍した。明治27(1894)年に宮城県会議員,翌年に仙台市会議員となった。29年改進党系の『東北日報』を秋葉忠七から買い受け,翌30年1月に『河北新報』と改題,創刊した。不偏不党を社是とし,地方紙で初めて英文欄を設けたり,また年中無休刊を宣言するなど先見性に富み,『河北新報』を東北を代表する地方紙にまで成長させた。<参考文献>『河北新報の80年』

(井川充雄)

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