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Meanwhile further cuts in the Imperial Household budget seemed likely, and Premier Hitoshi Ashida put the boot to some of Hirohito's old-guard retainers, who still wore striped pants and cutaways, still called the Emperor O-kami (Honorable God). Imperial Grand Steward Yoshitami Matsudaira, a palace henchman for 37 years, resigned and "moved across the moat...
...roses were to remind Diet members to behave like gentlemen during the voting for the new Prime Minister.* The reminder was effective, but it did not help the Liberals' own candidate, Shigeru Yoshida. In an orderly manner, the Diet's lower chamber voted for busy, birdlike Hitoshi Ashida, leader of the Democratic (meaning mildly conservative) Party...
...Ashida received 216 votes (five more than the required majority), while rose-wearing Yoshida got 180. The Diet's upper chamber voted the other way, 104-102; but under Japan's new constitution this was merely another nosegay for the loser: the vote in the lower house was the only one that counted...
...Premier's Cabinet, like that of outgoing Premier Tetsu Katayama ("TIME, Feb. 23), would be formed from a shaky coalition of Democrats, Socialists and the small People's Cooperative Party. The prospects for Ashida were not encouraging, but the 60-year-old former diplomat throught he could succeed where Katayama had failed. Said he: "I will do my utmost...
Last week, as weary Katayama headed for his summer home at Katase and sleep, conservative-minded Yoshida and Ashida kept a bright eye on the Diet, which would elect the new Prime Minister. Each thought he might be just...