Commemorating the Publication of "The Struggles of an Evening Tabloid Reporter: A Personal History of the 'Nagoya Times'" (Fubaisha) — Crime and Social Conditions: Recollections of a Beat Reporter is a ZINE event held at ナゴヤブックセンター on Friday, November 13, 2026 (Author event,1 exhibitions/participations).
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Commemorating the Publication of "The Struggles of an Evening Tabloid Reporter: A Personal History of the 'Nagoya Times'" (Fubaisha) — Crime and Social Conditions: Recollections of a Beat Reporter
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A reporter for the mass-circulation paper "Nagoya Times" will talk about a different side of Nagoya's back pages from the Showa and Heisei eras that he captured.
Lecturer: Naoki Kito (former Editor-in-Chief, "Nagoya Times")
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Naoki Kito
Born November 1946 in Nagoya. Graduated from Waseda University, First Faculty of Law, in March 1969. He joined the Nagoya Times in February of the same year. Assigned to the news reporting division (social affairs), he covered police rounds around Nagoya, worked as a roving reporter, covered the courts, and reported on municipal administration. He served as Editor-in-Chief from 1998 to 2007. He retired in October 2008 when the paper suspended publication.
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