Tokyo English Paper Sold
Date: 20 March 1955
Eng-language Japan News sold to Yomiuri
Mariya Takeuchi (竹内 まりや, Takeuchi Mariya; born 20 March 1955) is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and record producer. With over 16 million records sold, Takeuchi is one of the best-selling music artists in Japan and is deemed the "Queen of City Pop" and an influential figure in the genre. Internationally, her song "Plastic Love" received a cult following and is credited as the catalyst of the 21st century revival of city pop.
Takeuchi was born in Taisha, Hikawa district, now the city of Izumo, Shimane, and attended Keio University. She signed with RCA in 1978, releasing five albums under the label which appeared on the Oricon Charts, including her chart-topping third effort Love Songs (1980). She terminated her contract with RCA in 1981 and announced a temporary hiatus. In 1982, she married singer and songwriter Tatsuro Yamashita. She signed with Moon Records in 1984, and internationally released her sixth studio album Variety that same year to commercial success. She has since released seven more studio albums and one live album. All of her works have continued to appear on the Oricon Charts, and since 2001, each one of her albums have topped it.
Takeuchi has stayed with the Moon record label, working with the different branches since signing in 1984; since 1998, she has also been signed with Warner Music Japan. Her single "Inochi no Uta" (いのちの歌; Song of Life), when re-recorded in 2020, made her the oldest Japanese singer to have a single top the Oricon Charts.
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Date: 20 March 1955
Special to The New York Times
receives US newspapermen
Date: 20 March 1955
Special to The New York Times
Naturalized newsman E Guney held, Ankara, for deportation; Govt reptd acting because of his assns with several embassies; no specific charges brought
Date: 20 March 1955
French News Agency correspondent H Salmon held for sending 'false news,'
Date: 20 March 1955
Special to The New York Times
Pub Printer R Blattenberger warns high output costs bring near-monopolistic conditions in newspaper indus; R E Lewis stresses constant surveillance to cut costs, mid-Atlantic newspaper conf sponsored by Penna Newspaper Publishers Assn and NJ Press Assn
Date: 20 March 1955
Star and Sees file for acquittal or new trial
Date: 20 March 1955
Special to The New York Times
Sup Ct rules Govt officials are not obliged to give truthful data to press; Press Assn protests
Date: 20 March 1955
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Soviet Arts Acad pres Gerasimov int on socialistic realism of USSR art
Date: 20 March 1955
Students distribute 2,000 copies of special ed of Crimson at Yale because Yale Daily News does not pub on Saturdays