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...resembles the ward-based political structure of American politics in the late 19th century. In his battle to retain the presidency of the party last December, Sato had to meld the miasmic wishes of a dozen cliques in order to stave off the challenge of former Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama. He won with a hefty 119-vote margin. The "black mist" corruption charges raised by the left-charges that, in typically Japanese style, were never substantiated (TIME, Nov. 4)-did little damage to the party's immediate aims...
Sato's own analysts had determined that he would need 300 of the 459 votes cast for the party presidency in order to reaffirm his strength. If his opponents, led by former Cabinet Member Aiichiro Fujiyama, captured 150 votes or more, Sato would have to consider himself seriously censured. As party leaders walked solemnly across the stage of Hibiya Hall to cast their ballots, Sato looked on impassively. His strongly arched Kabuki-actor eyebrows barely twitched at the final count: 289 votes for Sato, 170 against...
Though none of his challengers appeared strong enough to unseat Sato in the near future (Fujiyama led the opposition with 89 votes), the election clearly showed that the party is uneasy with Sato's leadership and his handling of the "black mist" Cabinet scandals that have tarnished the government's image. Sato told the delegates in his acceptance speech that he would "humbly accept the criticism" registered in the vote, then set about blowing away the black mist...
Sato's key opponent for the post is former Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama, 69, a dapper industrialist-idealist who is known as "the silk handkerchief" for his dilettantist ways. Running against Sato for the leadership in 1964, Fujiyama won only 72 votes of 476 cast. In this week's election, he hopes to crystallize latent discontent within the party and win 150 votes or more; another faction has already decided to cast its 70 votes neither for Sato nor for Fujiyama but for its own leader. Together, those defections might cause trouble for Sato in next year...
...popularity keeps dropping as prices keep rising, where it hurt most. Worried about the latest opinion polls, which showed that only 28.8% of the Japanese public supports him, Sato warned his party leaders to "proceed slowly" on the bill-which in his language meant drop it. Economic Planner Aiichiro Fujiyama chimed in to say that it should be "studied further"-which in his language meant drop it immediately. The bill was quietly dropped...