Japan To Posthumously Honor Yomiuri’s Tsuneo Watanabe; Govt Announces Third Grade, Senior of the Court Rank

Tsuneo Watanabe, representative director and editor-in-chief of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, who died on Dec. 19 at the age of 98, will be given the honor of Third Grade, Senior of the Court Rank, the government decided at a Cabinet meeting on Friday morning.