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Premier Takeo Miki is regarded in Japan as a mild-mannered and even distressingly passive leader. Last week, however, he displayed a streak of combativeness worthy of a samurai. Facing a concerted effort by bosses of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party to force his early resignation, Miki defiantly announced during a televised press conference that he would refuse to step down prematurely. He also abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with Party Vice President and Elder Statesman Etsusaburo Shiina, 78, that was widely expected to be the showdown between the Premier and his foes...
...Miki's tough talk was the latest act in a prolonged, almost Kabuki-style drama that pits him against most of the Daimyo (feudal lords) in his own party. For weeks the top L.D.P. leaders have actively been involved in intense rounds of misshitsu seiji-Japan's characteristic brand of "sealed-room politics." The bosses are convinced that Miki is weak and ineffectual and may lead the party to disastrous losses in the national elections that must be held before the end of the year. There are, however, some difficult complications that have enhanced Miki's staying...
...Clean. Miki has been criticized within the party for proceeding too slowly, and independently, in investigating Lockheed-related wrongdoing. Miki's supporters counter that the real worry of many in the L.D.P. is that the Premier's careful investigation will badly tarnish the reputations of some important party figures. Party Vice President Shiina is well aware that in the public mind, efforts to dump Miki are seen as part of a Lockheed cover-up by a party that only two years ago was jolted by the worst scandal in its history-the resignation of Miki's predecessor...
...taking $1.1 million from Lockheed, is very unlikely. So, under terms of the agreement with the U.S., the three-man committee that is investigating the scandal may not be able to make public any of its findings about the prince. In Japan, opposition parties are branding Premier Takeo Miki a man without principle for having accepted Washington's conditions of confidentiality in receiving information about Lockheed's payoffs...
...kamikaze (divine wind) attack was yet another tremor in the continuing Lockheed shokku. Prime Minister Takeo Miki has been under heavy fire in the Diet, where his Liberal Democrats hold a steadily shrinking majority, for striking a deal with the U.S. Government that seemed aimed at containing further revelations about the scandal. Opposition parties are particularly angry at two conditions Miki accepted. Information resulting from U.S. investigations of the Lockheed affair will henceforth be passed confidentially to Japanese law agencies, and no names will be revealed publicly unless sufficient evidence is found for indictments...