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Alarmed by the government's inability to control lawlessness, Kishi placed before the Diet a bill to restore to the police such elementary powers as the right to search suspected criminals for arms and to disperse mobs. While employers generally cheered the new bill, socialists and labor unions made angry protest...
...Regrettably," said Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, "the masses have shown a tendency of late to ignore...
...Kishi thought he knew where some of the blame lay for the crime and violence that has rocked Japan since the end of the war: it lay on the good intentions of U.S. occupation reformers, and their determination to safeguard the Japanese against intimidating cops...
...brisk fighting broke out though members themselves stayed out of the line of fire while they sent forth their male secretaries to bop one another with chairs and lunch boxes. Socialists, stirring up the ruckus inside the Diet and labor leaders calling a general strike outside it, were, said Kishi, threatening the parliamentary democracy "which you claim to cherish." But they were not the only opponents of the bill. Throughout Japan last week, responsible men and women with vivid memories of the days when the police could arrest and torture as part of the government's thought-control policy...
...arrested, questioned and then released at one station, only to be picked up and questioned again at another. Such memories were apparently a good deal more painful than the current lawlessness. With the sole exception of the English-language Japan Times, not a single major newspaper rallied to Kishi's side...