Riichi Ueno

Japanese: 上野理一 - うえの・りいち

Year of death: December 31, 1919
Year of birth: October 3, 1848 (October 29, 1848)
A newspaper entrepreneur during the Meiji and Taisho periods. His pen name was Aritake. He was born in Sasayama Nishimachi, Tanba (Hyogo Prefecture) as the eldest son of Ueno Yasubei, a money changer who was a supplier to the Tanba Aoyama Domain, and his father Kaneko. His family fell into ruin in the peasant uprisings of 1869 (Meiji 2), and after his father's sudden death, he moved to Kobe around 1872 to work in the tea trade, and in 1875 became a steward to Miyoshi Shigeomi, commander of the Osaka Garrison. In 1880, he became senior clerk of Kawabe County, Hyogo Prefecture, and in the same year, he joined the Asahi Shimbun Company through an introduction from Hosomi Sada. The following year, he participated in management as a joint investor, and from then on, together with Murayama Ryuhei, developed both the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi Shimbun companies. In 1886, he merged the Tokyo and Osaka Asahi Shimbun companies to form the Asahi Shimbun Limited Partnership Company, and from then on he and Murayama took turns as president every year. In the so-called White Rainbow Incident of 1918, while he was recuperating from illness, he took over as president from Murayama and worked to resolve the situation, including meeting with Prime Minister Hara Takashi. In 1919, he retired from the board of directors when the Asahi Shimbun Company was incorporated as a joint-stock company. <References> Asahi Shimbun Company History Editorial Office, "Biography of Ueno Riichi"; Asahi Shimbun Centennial History Editorial Committee, "Asahi Shimbun Company History" Meiji Edition, Taisho/Showa Prewar Edition

(Mitsuo Igawa)

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

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没年：大正8.12.31(1919)
生年：嘉永1.10.3(1848.10.29)
明治大正時代の新聞経営者。号は有竹。丹波(兵庫県)篠山西町に,丹波青山藩御用達の両替商・上野保兵衛と兼子の長男として生まれる。明治2(1869)年の農民暴動で生家が没落,父が急逝したのち,5年ごろに神戸に出て茶の貿易に従事し,8年大阪鎮台司令官三好重臣の執事となる。13年,兵庫県川辺郡上席書記となるが,同年,細見貞の紹介で朝日新聞社に入社した。翌14年,共同出資者として経営に参画,以来村山竜平と共に東京・大阪両朝日新聞を発展させた。41年,東京・大阪の両朝日新聞社を合併し,朝日新聞合資会社とし,これ以降は村山と1年交代で社長となった。大正7(1918)年のいわゆる白虹事件では,病気静養中であったが,村山に代わって社長となり,原敬首相と会談するなどして事態の収拾に当たった。8年,朝日新聞社の株式会社化を機に役員から退いた。<参考文献>朝日新聞社史編修室『上野理一伝』,朝日新聞百年史編修委員会『朝日新聞社史』明治編,大正・昭和戦前編

(井川充雄)

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