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The Yomiuri Shimbun Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba comments on Tsuneo Watanabe in Tokyo on Thursday.
The Yomiuri Shimbun
16:08 JST, December 19, 2024
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Thursday hailed Tsuneo Watanabe, editor-in-chief of The Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings, as a “great journalist.” Watanabe had died of pneumonia in the small hours of the day aged 98.
“He was a great journalist,” Ishiba told reporters at the Prime Minister’s Office. “Given the nation’s current political situation, I hope he could have taught us more about how Japan should be in the future. I offer my sincerest prayer for him.”
