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...They flocked to lectures to learn how to load innocent stories with the Communist line, how to flatter personalities sympathetic to the left, how to agitate in print. Their cells grew everywhere: 250 congress members on Tokyo's biggest paper, Asahi (circ. 5,000,000); 190 in the Kyodo News Agency, notorious among Western newsmen for its leftist tinge; So on Mainichi (circ. 3,560,000), 50 on Yomiuri (circ...
Ichiro Hatoyama had good cause for elation. Last week the big Kyodo news agency polled voters and confirmed the Asahi verdict: 40.8% for Hatoyama; 18% for Taketora Ogata, successor to the fallen Shigeru Yoshida as head of the conservative Liberal Party; 14% for Mosaburo Suzuki of the left-wing (Bevanite) Socialists; 12.5% for Jotaro Kawakami of the moderate, right-wing Socialists. In all, more than 56% of the voters expected that Hatoyama would...
...Japanese moppets who could scarcely toddle at the time of Pearl Harbor, the seeds of democracy were sprouting fast. From the city of Fukuoka, the Kyodo News Service, Japan's largest press asso ciation, reported last week...