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Last week, as Constitution Day approached again, the conservative government of Premier Ichiro Hatoyama pushed through Japan's Lower House, by a vote of 239 to 139, a bill establishing an agency to prepare changes in the constitution along some recommended lines: ¶ Abandonment of MacArthur's proud clause proscribing war (intended to make Japan the "Switzerland of Asia") to permit Japanese rearming, with safeguards against return of the old military clique. ¶ An upgrading of the Emperor from the purely honorary position ("symbol of the state") he now holds to a position somewhere below the divinity ("sacred...
...whole stage. They consolidated Japan's two big feuding conservative parties, the Liberals and the Democrats, into one gigantic party, the Liberal-Democrats, which will control 300 of 467 seats in the Diet's Lower House. The merger marks the beginning of the end for Ichiro Hatoyama, who as a candidate was a great vote getter, but in office has been a weak, indecisive and garrulous Prime Minister. Hatoyama will stay in office until next April, but with a new Cabinet to be divided almost equally between Democrats and Liberals...
...shift is the smoothest kuromaku of them all, Nobusuke Kishi. A candid, confident pro, Kishi masterminded the formation of the Democratic Party and its ouster of Premier Shigeru Yoshida's Liberals from power last year. He is the man who put elderly (72), crippled Ichiro Hatoyama into power and is now preparing to nudge...
...into left and right wings by the peace treaty with the Western allies, patched things up last week. Amid bouquets of chrysanthemums, carnations and ferns, the two factions joined to become Japan's second largest political party, with 155 seats in the Diet v. 185 for Premier Ichiro Hatoyama's conservative Democrats...
...reunion upset the balance in the Diet, but was likely to provoke a similar reunion between Hatoyama's Democrats and the Liberals of Ex-Premier Shigeru Yoshida, which would give conservatives a 147-seat majority and Japan the near equivalent of a two-party system...