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...emotional voters behind the opposition Socialists, a right-wing fanatic assassinated Socialist Party Boss Inejiro Asanuma. But last week, when election workers finished counting up nearly 40 million ballots, elated Liberal-Democratic Premier Hayato Ikeda carefully began to ink in the eyes of a papier-maché daruma doll-a duty prescribed by Japanese custom for a man who has attained a cherished goal...
...civic leaders were promoting a loo-million-yen ($650,-500) amusement center for U.S. troops. It would provide billiards, rifle shooting, golf, tennis, fried fish, sweet bean soup, tea and souvenirs. An entertainment association advertised for 5,000 professional hostesses and 3,000 women entertainers, including dancers, waitresses and daruma geisha. As distinguished from real geisha, who excel at conversation, the daruma geisha are named after daruma dolls, which have round, weighted bases and push over easily...
Japanese affectionately call 78-year-old Finance Minister Korekiyo Takahashi "Daruma" after the pot-bellied Buddhist sage, symbol of good luck. Just now he is carrying on with the most colossal and appallingly unbalanced budget in Japanese history. Since Japan quit the gold standard (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931) her yen has fallen to 36% of its par gold value but there has been no monetary inflation, no starting of the Japanese Treasury's printing presses. Last week Mr. Takahashi, who in his youth indentured himself to an Oakland, Calif, farmer to work for three years for a total wage...
Latest statistics show that yen in circulation have slightly decreased since the Empire went off gold nearly two years ago. There has been of course an orgy of Japanese credit inflation, sponsored by "Daruma" Takahashi as the only means of paying Japan's war bills. Last week he sharply criticized only one point of President Roosevelt's recovery policy, the shortening of working hours under the NRA. To 78-year-old and frankly old-fashioned Korekiyo Takahashi this is nonsense. "What any nation needs now," he snapped, "is more work, not less work...