Word: diet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Labor was so scarce that a Diet member proposed forcibly repatriating all Japanese from the U. S. and Hawaii. Koreans and Chinese war prisoners were being drafted...
...Last week the Diet's lower House passed the heaviest budget in Japan's history. Its ¥10,300,000,000 ($2,400,000,000) was more than one third of the entire national income of Japan, and more than three times the State's revenues. Nearly 70% of the budget was earmarked for military expenses...
...Most notable shortage was in self-restraint. All the material shortages had been long developing, but only recently have the Japanese begun howling about them. Not so long ago any statesman with the gall to criticize the Government as openly as Diet members have in the last month (TIME, Feb. 12) would have been obliged to commit honorable suicide. Newspapers have suddenly begun speaking out of turn. Said nationalistic Kokumin...
Last week Representative Haruji Tahara rose in the Diet and before the very face of Premier Yonai said: "We must have a strong man at the top, a Hitler, a Mussolini -" (the House drew in its breath, remembering the expulsion of a member last year for urging a Mussolini, Hitler, or Stalin) "- or a Roosevelt." The House relaxed...
...offer the beaten enemy merciful terms. But the Army could not deny that it had failed to send similar telegrams after its victories at Shanghai, Nanking, Hankow. Three days after the newly assembled straw army of Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei was reported in revolt, Premier Yonai assured the Diet that the forthcoming installation of Puppet Wang would be the first step toward peace...