“Advance to TV earlier than NHK” Matsutaro Shoriki, who made the Yomiuri Shimbun with NTV, is a representative of the Showa era | PRESIDENT Online

Matsutaro Shoriki, who served as the president of the Yomiuri Shimbun and Nippon Television Network, is a person who does not fit into the frame of “manager”. The writer, Kazuya Fukuda, said, “He was a representative of the Showa era.”

* This article is written by Kazuya Fukuda “The world’s richest man in the 19th and 20th centuries](Soshisha) is a re-edited part.

Matsutaro Shoriki who lived various lives

Matsutaro Shoriki. How many lives did he live in …?

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An internal bureaucrat who struggled to maintain security and relentlessly cracked down on socialists.

The owner who made the newspaper company on the verge of bankruptcy the best in Japan.

An entertainer who has established baseball in Japan.

While being designated as a war criminal, he made a wonderful comeback and is a good man in the world.

An idea man who installed a TV on the street.

Father of nuclear power.

Positive power is a person who represents the Showa era, and his “representative” isDespicable praise and criticismKiyohohenIt is painted on, but that is probably the face of positive power.

From an excellent judo player to the University of Tokyo law department

Matsutaro Shoriki was born on April 11, 1858, in Biwakubi Village, Imizu District, Toyama Prefecture (currently Imizu City), as the second son of his father Shojiro.

The Shoriki family was a so-called middle-aged farmer who had a business of civil engineering and was allowed to have a surname and a sword.

Matsutaro was a frail child. At that time, weak children usually went to school from the dormitory, but Shojiro’s method was different.

He walked about eight kilometers every day in Jika-tabi.

Matsutaro, who followed his father’s teaching to train his body rather than studying, became healthy.

However, the seating order for graduation was the fourth from Biri …

Even so, it was a fluent era because he went straight to the prestigious Fourth High School in Hokuriku. At that time, Kitaro Nishida was studying ethics at the Fourth High School.

As a judo player, his positive power was extremely well received.

Unexpectedly, he defeated the general of the third high school.

After graduating from the Fourth High School, Masariki went on to study German law at Tokyo Imperial University Law University.

However, I spent more time in the Kodokan than on the university campus.