Takajin Yashiki

National / Media | MEDIA MIX Dec 20, 2014

Weeklies walk a fine line in scandal reporting

by Philip Brasor

In her regular column in the Dec. 11 issue of Shukan Bunshun, novelist Mariko Hayashi blasted the weekly magazines, including Bunshun, for failing to follow up on a scandal that, under normal circumstances, should have been right up their alley. The daughter of the ...

National Jan 8, 2014

Cancer claims Osaka-based TV celebrity, singer Takajin , aged 64

Takajin Yashiki, a popular TV celebrity and singer well known in the Kansai region, has died, according to a TV station official and other sources. He was 64. The city of Osaka native died Friday, they said. He had been battling esophageal cancer for the ...