Baba Tsunego - Baba Tsunego

Japanese: 馬場恒吾 - ばばつねご
Baba Tsunego - Baba Tsunego

Journalist. Born in Okayama Prefecture on July 13, 1875. After dropping out of Doshisha and Tokyo Senmon Gakko (the predecessor of Waseda University), he joined The Japan Times newspaper. In 1909 (Meiji 42), he went to the United States and worked in New York as an editor for the English magazine Oriental Review. In 1913 (Taisho 2), he returned to The Japan Times, but the following year he moved to The Kokumin Shimbun, where he served as head of the political department and editor-in-chief. He left the company in 1924 and became a commentator, and devoted himself to the universal suffrage movement and the formation of a proletarian political party. During the war, he was banned from writing as a liberal commentator. In December 1945 (Showa 20), after the president of The Yomiuri Shimbun, Matsutaro Shoriki, was arrested on suspicion of war crimes, he was welcomed as president of the company, a position he held until January 1951. During this time, he weathered the second Yomiuri dispute, served as chairman of the Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association, and was awarded the first Newspaper Culture Award. He passed away on April 5, 1956. His books include "Contemporary People Criticism," "A History of the Konoe Cabinet," "Recollections and Hope," and "Autobiography Sketches."

[Masao Takasu]

"Recollections and Hope" (1948, Yomiuri Shimbun) "Autobiography Sketches" (1952, Tozai Bunmeisha)

[Reference item] | Yomiuri Shimbun
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Japanese:

ジャーナリスト。明治8年7月13日岡山県に生まれる。同志社、東京専門学校(早稲田(わせだ)大学の前身)中退後、『ジャパンタイムズ』紙に入社。1909年(明治42)渡米、ニューヨークで英文雑誌『オリエンタル・レビュー』の編集に携わった。1913年(大正2)帰国、『ジャパンタイムズ』に復帰したが、翌1914年『国民新聞』に移り、政治部長、編集局長を歴任、1924年退社し、以後、評論活動に入るとともに、普選運動、無産政党の結成に力を尽くした。戦時中、自由主義的言論人として執筆禁止の厄にあった。1945年(昭和20)12月、読売新聞社社長正力松太郎(しょうりきまつたろう)が戦犯容疑で勾引(こういん)されたのち、同社社長に迎えられ、1951年1月まで社長を務めた。この間、第二次読売争議を切り抜け、日本新聞協会会長も務め、第1回新聞文化賞を受けた。昭和31年4月5日死去。著書には『現代人物評論』『近衛内閣史論(このえないかくしろん)』『回顧と希望』『自伝点描』などがある。

[高須正郎]

『『回顧と希望』(1948・読売新聞社)』『『自伝点描』(1952・東西文明社)』

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