Please Don't Change the Facts

by Jonathan Vankin

Memories of a Mercenary Journalist at the World's Largest Newspaper

I stand gathering my courage, such as it is, on the steps of the Yomiuri Shimbun building, headquarters of the world's largest-circulation daily newspaper, in the center of Tokyo's financial district known as Otemachi (which I am told, translates literally as “Big Hands Town”). The blaring neon of Ginza, the Blade Runner video screens of Shinjuku, the erotic throb of Shibuya, the Westernized decadence of Roppongi — forget it.