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Opening the Diet last week, frock-coated Emperor Hirohito pleaded for taibo seikatsu-austerity living. Two days later, foxy old Premier Shigeru Yoshida explained what the austerity is for: to check Japan's ominous inflation, and, by stern cuts in government civil spending, to make room in Yoshida's trillion-yen ($2,780,000,000) budget for Japan's burgeoning rearmament...
...goes as planned, Japan will create during 1954 an air force of 258 planes (including a few U.S. jets), 7,200 men and six pilot-training schools. Land forces will be increased to 139,000 men, the navy to 16,000 men and 93,000 tons of warships. Yoshida's proposals drew angry shouts from Socialist and Progressive opponents, one of whom asserted that the Premier's budget had been "written in the American embassy." Privately, these opponents admit that they are only shadowboxing. They want U.S. troops to leave Japanese soil, but they know the only...
Said Tokuzo lida, 41, bookstore owner: "Yoshida now calls for taibo seikatsu, but most of us are already living on the bare minimum." Then he added, with wistful pride: "Still, it's a long time since we had an air force...
...Americans turned their native ingenuity to a new game they called "relay race." They set up "imperialist dummies" of Dulles, Adenauer, Chiang Kaishek, Syngman Rhee and Japan's Shigeru Yoshida. They chose sides, one to each "imperialist." The lead-off men then sprinted 100 yards to their imperialists, clouted them on the heads with cudgels and ran back to start off their No. 2s. The No. 25 then attacked the imperialists, and the game went on until the dummies lay torn in shreds. The Communist propaganda game would presumably continue too-until the P.W.s lay broken and worn...
Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida is well aware that U.S. spending will drop even more this year. To meet the situation he has ordered government departments to trim their budgets. But Japan's growing defense forces will make heavy demands on the treasury. So will the severe rice shortage resulting from Japan's recent floods (TIME, Oct. 12). Yoshida's 1954 budget, announced last week, totals 994.3 billion yen ($2.76 billion), which is 32 billion yen less than actual expenditures last year. But-significantly-the new figure is 33.8 billion yen higher than the original...