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...while Park, emerging from behind a bullet-proof shield, went on with his speech. Afterward there was a great anti-Japanese uproar, and, on September 9, 32 patriots lopped off fingers publicly in Seoul with meat cleavers and sent them wrapped in a Korean flag to then Japanese premier Kakuei Tanaka. Newsmen soon discovered however that those "patriots" were convicts who had been released from jail to perform this act. The government had paid them from $125 to $375 per finger (Newsweek...
Succeeding Kakuei Tanaka in 1974, Miki had earned his colleagues' enmity by demanding a full, open investigation of the Lockheed scandal, even though it meant exposing the corruption of leading L.D.P. members. He was also widely blamed for the party's setback in last month's elections for the Diet's 511-seat lower house, in which L.D.P. strength dropped to 249 representatives-a loss of 16 (TIME, Dec. 20). In order to continue governing, the L.D.P. has had to co-opt a dozen conservative representatives who ran as independents in the election with Liberal Democratic...
Miki's attitude typifies his defiance of L.D.P. tradition, a quality that has irritated, affronted and finally outraged party stalwarts. Deceptively mild-mannered, Miki, 69, displayed samurai nerve all year, pressing the Lockheed investigation to the indictment of 19 top businessmen and politicians, including his predecessor as Premier, Kakuei Tanaka. Even as he was acclaimed the "Mr. Clean" of Japanese politics, party leaders tried to dump him for exposing L.D.P. improprieties. Backed in the struggle by public opinion and the press, Miki had hoped for vindication at the polls...
...Japan. Right-wing Lobbyist Yoshio Kodama, a powerful operator at many levels of government and business, was indicted last week on charges of having established a Hong Kong "cover" company to launder illegal funds from Lockheed. Although 19 other top political and business figures, including former Premier Kakuei Tanaka, have been arrested on bribetaking charges in Japan, Kodama has so far avoided arrest on grounds of illness...
...spartan cell is no different from that of any ordinary inmate at the Tokyo House of Detention-a 6-ft. by 9-ft. concrete cubicle furnished with two tatami mats, a collapsible table and a toilet. Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's new quarters were a long way from the exquisitely landscaped home across town where he lived until his arrest last week. Yet the House of Detention was not wholly unfamiliar to "Kaku-san," as he was once affectionately nicknamed. In 1948, as a brash young member of the Japanese Diet, he spent three weeks there on charges...