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Clamor for Yoshida's resignation increased. His left-wing opposition in the Diet, though divided within itself, is bigger than his own coalition. The left-wingers were hot & heavy after Yoshida for his pro-Western policy, and used the scandals as their club. Haughtily refusing either to discuss the scandals or to give police the help they needed to clean out corruption, Yoshida stayed away from the Diet, calmly warmed his feet over a charcoal brazier at his private villa in Oiso, 42 miles from Tokyo. His own Liberal and Progressive supporters realized that if they tried to desert...
...When a cooking pot begins to stink, it's time to put the lid on." That was the advice the influential Tokyo Shimbun recently flung at Premier Shigeru Yoshida, 75. A government corruption scandal of Teapot Dome proportions threatened to overturn Yoshida's conservative coalition government. Everyone wondered whether shrewd, durable Premier Yoshida would be able to meet this challenge...
...financial operations said that these were small compared to the way subsidized shipbuilders used government money to bribe officials for more subsidies. The moneylender backed up his story with a list of wild geisha parties thrown by shipbuilders and subcontractors for government officials, including seven members of Yoshida's Cabinet. Altogether, 600 geishas were involved in the parties. Soon 100 suspects, among them 59 company heads and directors and five Diet members, ended up in Tokyo's Kosuge prison accused of either giving or taking bribes. Streets outside Kosuge were filled with secretaries and geishas bearing gifts...
Yesterday's report of a U.S. defense pact with Japan adds emphasis to the pressing need for Japanese economic stability. While Premier Yoshida has steadied the political situation in that nation, Japan is now fighting a subsistence battle with its shaky economy. The slackening of United States purchases since the Korean war has left a large trade deficit. Food imports necessary to feed the population far exceed the export market for Japan's industrial output. For this reason, although quite strongly opposed to Russia, a hungry Japan might look more favorably toward Communist promises...
...occupation from a militarist thought-control system, only to be gulled by the exponents of a worse tyranny. The 500,000-strong Japanese Teachers Union, representing two-thirds of the country's teachers, is noisy, well knit-and dominated by Communists. This week Diet members from Premier Shigeru Yoshida's government party produced two bills designed to curb the union's new Communist-line politicking. Unfortunately, the bills seemed to approach the old thought-control methods...