Word: cabineteers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...prewar scandals revealed such spectacular corruption as the Showa Denko case. Japanese newspaper readers began to laugh when cops flushed Banboku Ono, secretary general of the Democratic Liberal party, out of a linen closet in an inn in Kyoto where he was in hiding. They laughed again when Cabinet Member Takeo Kurusu rushed into print with an announcement that he, personally, was not involved with Showa Denko. Next week government agents raided Kurusu's home and slapped him into Kosuge...
...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...
...Huddle. The next cabinet will probably be formed around the conservative Democratic Liberal party, led by stuffy, blundering ex-Premier Shigeru Yoshida. His personal unpopularity with other Japanese conservatives, as well as with progressives and with SCAP, might induce the Liberals to put up some more acceptable front for Yoshida...
...leaders of Japan's four major parties last week got together to bargain for posts in the new cabinet. Cynical Japanese newsmen drew up and published a roster of their own, made up entirely of high officials now held in Kosuge prison. Just then, police announced the latest Showa Denko arrest: Kosuge's Warden Ito was charged with accepting bribes from his Oh-mono to help them communicate with their colleagues still outside...