ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA.

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Album documenting the company's entry into the Japanese market. A souvenir of the opening of the Japan office in 1966 and early efforts to market the forthcoming Japanese edition. A selection of the photographs shows the journalist and Japanologist Frank B. Gibney (1924-2006), who joined the company in 1966 to drive the expansion into Asia and who edited the first edition in Japanese, published as a 28-volume set between 1972 and 1975.The album opens with shots from the 28 February 1966 office ribbon-cutting, Gibney posing with his pipe. A second section records a window display and an exhibition of books and images organized at department stores in Tokyo and Osaka, and the arrangement ends with photographs of events and of a television broadcast in which Gibney participated. Fluent in Japanese, Gibney served in US naval intelligence during the Second World War and found fame as a journalist during the Korean War. He worked for Britannica for a decade. Published under the title Buritanika Kokusai Daihyakka-jiten, the Japanese-language edition supplemented material from the English-language edition with articles appealing to a Japanese audience.

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