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...whopping 22 of the 29 seats in the legislature-a gain of seven. In the sweep, the People's Party was all but wiped out; it lost four of its five seats in the last legislature and suffered the additional humiliation of seeing the voters reject Mme. Kamejiro Senaga, wife of the party's spellbinding boss. (The other six legislature seats went to the mildly leftist Socialist Masses Party and a conservative independent.) With uncommon political maturity, most Okinawans had clearly accepted Liberal Democrat Ota's common-sense argument that in a time of cold...
With no political dexterity at all, the U.S. military government authorities on Okinawa moved two months ago to remove a political irritant-skinny little pro-Communist Kamejiro Senaga, mayor of Okinawa's capital and chief city, Naha. The method: Lieut. General James E. Moore, U.S. High Commissioner, rewrote Naha's laws to permit the city assembly's conservative majority to oust the mayor on a vote of no confidence, then effectively barred his re-election by decreeing that no convicted felons could hold office (Senaga was jailed by the U.S. authorities in 1954 for harboring a Japanese...
When fiery, brittle little Kamejiro Senaga was elected mayor of Naha last year, conservative Okinawan businessmen and U.S. authorities immediately went to work to unseat him. Senaga, an ex-journalist who ran a general store as a sideline to his job as mayor, had already served 18 months of a two-year jail sentence for harboring a wanted Japanese Communist, and was widely regarded as a Communist himself...
...years the chief Okinawan thorn in the U.S. side has been an emaciated little man with a jet-black mustache and eyes that glare from behind thick spectacles. He is Kamejiro Senaga, the 49-year-old chief of the Okinawa People's Party. The party's principal plank was opposition to U.S. requisitioning of land for military purposes, which over the years has resulted in the seizure of one-fifth of Okinawa's arable land and the dispossession of 50,000 Okinawans. In a low, mild voice, Senaga called the U.S. occupation authorities "criminals, murderers, rapists, arsonists...
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