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...Japan the Diet virtually stopped work to wrangle over the way Premier Takeo Miki's administration was handling the Lockheed scandal (TIME cover, Feb. 23). Miki's response was to send police to raid 28 separate offices and homes in search of evidence of wrongdoing. No. 1 target was the home of Yoshio Kodama, the 65-year-old ultranationalist who was allegedly paid more than $7 million of the $12 million of payola handed out in Japan by Lockheed. Investigators from the national tax agency, Tokyo police and the Public Prosecutor's office struck...
...Diet repeated Premier Miki's plea to the U.S. State Department to release the names of high Japanese officials implicated in taking Lockheed money. The politicians also agreed to hold two days of hearings this week on the scandal. Nine witnesses will be called, but possibly not all will appear. Kodama is still too sick to move, his doctor advises, and former Lockheed Vice Chairman A.C. Kotchian is not bound by U.S. law to go to Japan to testify...
Hara-Kiri. Premier Takeo Miki instructed the Japanese embassy in Washington to request the names of any government officials believed to have taken Lockheed bribes. Senator Church said he would be happy to turn over the names if his subcommittee can pry them out of Lockheed, but that he would pass them on "through channels," presumably meaning the State Department. That could pose a dilemma for Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who has opposed making the names public for fear of damaging friendly governments...
...Miki realizes that if he cannot convince Japanese voters that he is cracking down on corruption, his Liberal Democrats, who have ruled Japan since 1955, could have their parliamentary majority sharply reduced in elections later this year. The depth of public feeling is indicated by a letter from a right-wing organization to Yoshio Kodama, Lockheed's secret agent in Japan. The letter demanded that Kodama atone for taking $7 million from Lockheed by "committing ritual hara-kiri...
...Lockheed disclosures changed all that. Miki still has his reputation for integrity; he has never been associated with the right-wing, big money elements in the party. Thus it now seems virtually certain that he will serve out his full term as party leader, until 1977. Tanaka, on the other hand, has apparently had his wings clipped once again. The brash, unrepentant politician promised the nation a full answer to questions about his financial dealings when he resigned in 1974, but no explanation has ever come forth. He is still rich, head of his party's biggest faction...