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Died. Hitoshi Ashida, 71, Premier (1948) of Japan, who went to jail briefly when his scandal-ridden coalition government (though backed by General MacArthur) collapsed after seven months, a member of the Diet in the 30s, who criticized Japan's military aggression; of cancer; in Tokyo...
...Commerce & Industry Ministry. More were coming in all the time. As Warden Kojiro Ito rearranged his cells to give individual attention to the Oh-mono (big shots), police arrested former Deputy Prime Minister Suehiro Nishio, who left the government two months ago under suspicion of taking bribes. Premier Hitoshi Ashida and his cabinet resigned the next...
...Showa Denko Co., cause of Ashida's downfall, is Japan's biggest postwar producer of chemical fertilizer. It received nearly 3 billion yen in loans from the Japanese Reconstruction Finance Bank-two-thirds of the total allocation for fertilizer industry loans. In return, Showa Denko spent at least 200 million yen in bribes to government officials, politicians and financiers, and for illegal expenses...
...disintegration of the Ashida cabinet left Japan in a political vacuum, just when a special Diet session was due to discuss a new minimum wage level for government employees (present level: about $14 a month). More serious was the resulting complete disillusionment with his government displayed by the Japanese man in the street. The U.S. had given Japan a new constitution, new slogans, new faces. It had not changed the real constitution of Japan-the skein of bribery which had held the country before the war and which continued to exist behind MacArthur's upright back...
...them as their own rulers. Maybe more so. "Whether the next U.S. President is isolationist or internationalist,"* wrote Tokyo's Asahi, "will have far more effect on the actual livelihood of the Japanese than the question of whether the next [Japanese] Premier is Shigeru Yoshida or Hitoshi Ashida...