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...merely countered with his standard attacks on the U.S. and routine demands for Japanese neutrality, with plenty of references to corruption thrown in. More exciting to outsiders was the debut on the national scene of Komeito, the Clean Government Party, which is the political arm of the militant Soka Gakkai Buddhist sect. Competing for 32 seats, Komeito's candidates were young and energetic, and observers gave them a good chance to win at least 27 of their contests. The election-eve guess was that Sato and his Liberal Democratic Party would be returned to power but could take slight...
...were in, his Liberal Democrats had lost only four seats-nowhere near enough to shake their commanding majority in the Diet's 250-member House of Councilors. Even so, the results were bad medicine for the government. The powerful Socialist Party made significant gains, as did the Soka Gakkai, a militant Buddhist organization whose Komeito (Clean Government) party emerged as a major political force by preaching pacifism, reform and anti-U.S. nationalism. In scandal-rocked Tokyo, government candidates could not win a single seat...
Died. Koji Harashima, 54, Japanese religious and political leader, a onetime schoolteacher who in 1940 joined the leftist Buddhist sect, Soka Gakkai (TiME, Dec. 11), rose to be its second-in-command and last month organized the movement's political arm, the Clean Government Party, which already ranks as the nation's third largest political force; of a heart attack; in Tokyo...
...Threat. In Ceylon, the tenuous, left-wing coalition government has for weeks been at the capricious mercy of the Buddhist clergy; last week the Prime Minister, Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, lost a vote of confidence and dissolved Parliament, requiring new elections that are sure to be tumultuous. In Japan, Soka Gakkai, a new Buddhist sect claiming converts at the rate of 100,000 families a month, has launched its own political party, which, says its chairman, "naturally aims at ruling the nation." In Burma, an attempt to set up a Buddhist thearchy has led to chaos and left-wing military dictatorship...
...JAPAN. Amid the dizzying changes of industrialization, Buddhist laymen have seized on the widespread yearning for new values to form Soka Gakkai (Value-Creation Society). Staging great circuses with acrobats, brass bands and dancing girls, Soka Gakkai has recruited over 13 million adherents, largely from Japan's lower middle class and urban-poor discontents. Tightly regimented, from family squads on up, they must vote for the sect's political candidate as a religious duty...