Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 187, Decatur, Adams County, 9 August 1956 — Page 10

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TV Give-aways Are Popular In Japan Japan TV Shows Follow U. S. Lead TOKYO —(UP) — One <»t the most popular children's programs oft Japanese TV is failed ' I)r. Cha-

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bo’s Qni* Show.”, Dr. Chabo, properly cap-aiHl<ownr<l befitttUK a scholar, auks a question of Mother Chicken. Father'Thieken and Boy Chicken, Child partlctpantk , are supposed to tnees which of the three answers is correct. The most popular drama on TV is a Japanese version of ‘Dragnet.’' HolAywood-filnred adventures of Sergeant Friday of the Lxis Angeles Police. Japan s Sgt. Friday of the Tokyo police is doing well for him-

self too. apprehending the criminals with the same skill; and the same numbled politenesses/ It is presented “live.” Performers of one of the most successful weekly shows for the family are not human at all Theyhe dogs. , Wrestling Attracts Favorite of female audiences is a band coming live from one of the Glnaa's lavish theater-testau rants. Meanwhile males

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have been so engrossed w r lth television wrestling, knowm as Sumo, that Japanese bath houses have been forced to install TV sets so patrons will stay during the Sumo Ixmls. — T -r—■ And the show that commands the greatest audience is the "loti,o#o Yen Question,” (100,01)0 yen equal $270) with people coining from all over the islands to see it. if not from within the studio then from without.

Yes, television has come to Japan. There are already some 250.000 sets in Japanese homes where families group in front of the set in a fashion similar so that of the western world, with the exception that viewers sit on their haunches on the tatami mats which cover their floors. Best off are residents 'of Tokyo, with three channels. Cities like Osaka, Hiroshima, and Nagoya get one channel, that of NHK-TV To-

kyo which is actually the key ata-’ tion of the Japanese network Developing Slowly A growing network of microwave relay towers will taka NHK-Toky® programs deeper into the country. The three Tokyo stations and their transmitters feature the latest in TV equipment and generally' follow the American pattern. Actually, ao do their program, much to the dismay of Japan's intelligentsia. One of the series that was run and

run at public demand until the film fell apart was “Superman." . It took Japan’s TV three years to get to this point. While fissured of continuous success, its development will depend on the national economy and an improvement in living standards. Not many among the 8k.000,000 inhabitants can afford >330 sets, the current price of a Japan-manufactured 17-inch set. Just the same, it expected that Japan will have a million TV sets

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within three years. Already, the total of TV fans is estipiated at six mllllpn. The minority watch TV at home. The majority — in public squares, streets, cases and bath houses. , NEW LONDON, Conn. — (UPi-» Charles Guguere, charged with driving 26 years without a license, was fined $24 -only about a third, of the amount a license would have cost. ■