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...uproar over procedures, the election amounted to an important vote of confidence for precapitalist, pro-Western Premier Hayato Ikeda...
...main driveway of Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda's official residence seemed an odd place for tents. But there they were last week, 25 of them, decked with flags and swarming with excited men who periodically would rush out to surround a cringing dignitary as he emerged through Ikeda's front door. Shoving, pushing, often pummeling its victim into speechlessness, the throng would shout at the man for a few minutes, then, its business done, make an equally frantic rush back for the tents. Was it a circus or a riot? Not quite either. It was the Tokyo...
Last week, as Ikeda once again began the laborious Cabinet-building process, hundreds of reporters from the papers and from Japan's TV and radio stations were on duty. Some whiled away the time with games of chess and mahjongg inside the tents. Others dozed on cots or chatted idly with their colleagues, trying to beat the summer heat with bottles of cold beer, which they bring to tento mura by the case. When word was flashed by walkie-talkie radio from the agent inside the P.M.'s foyer, the press corps rushed out to extract the news...
Last week's tento mura was the biggest ever, and the usual carnival air hung over the scene. But, alas, Ikeda's Cabinet problem was speedily resolved, and the tents came down after only two days. Sighed one disappointed reporter: "Now I have to go home to my wife. In the good old days we could count on being away much longer. There's something about a tent village that's invigorating. You just can't have a new Cabinet without...
...Enough Bodies. This year, with a backlog of 66 bills still stalled in committee, Premier Ikeda ordered his men to push them through before the Diet session closes July 6. When the government party recently used its majority to force a vote on a controversial relief-law revision, cow-walking was no longer enough. Fists and ashtrays started to fly. Battling lawmakers shouted: "Respect parliamentary procedures!" The brawling later spread to the cabinet committee, where five bills were stalled. Socialists massed around the committee-room door to prevent Chairman Tadanori Nagayama from entering...