Word: kokumin
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...weeks Hayashi and his gold braids have been loudly proclaiming that the Minseito and Seiyukai would get a proper trimming in these elections from the militant little Showakai, Kokumin-domei. and Tohokai parties. Hence it was a considerable surprise last week when Japan went to the polls, gave Premier Hayashi a most resounding electoral slap. Of the 466 Diet seats, more than 400 went to avowed opposition parties, with the moderate Minseito actually losing ground to the rabidly anti-Hayashi Social Mass Party. So bucked up were civilian politicians that they demanded that the Cabinet resign at once, even...
...Outrage. Japanese newspapers last week noted a U. S. "outrage." To Guam Island six months ago came 112 Japanese laborers on six-month permits. When the permits ran out Guam's Governor, U. S. Navy Captain Edmund Spence Root, refused to renew them according to Tokyo's Kokumin Shimbnn. Somebody appealed to the Japanese Consul General at Manila. Nevertheless the 112 were deported on Governor Root's "outrageous order...
...nickname of Senkyo no Kamisama or "God of Elections" by his skill in managing the outcome of local elections. Thirteen months ago the God of Elections resigned from the Minseito to avoid expulsion after dickering with the Seiyukai Party to form a Coalition Cabinet. Japanese Fascism, the Kokumin Domei or National League, is his latest idea. Its flag: a golden eagle on a light brown background. Its uniform: black belted jacket, striped trousers, military cap. Its program: replacement of the Cabinet by a dictatorial council, government control of public utilities and shipping, increase in income tax, death duties, dividend...
...accustomed to rely on both the Conservative London Times and the Liberal Manchester Guardian as twin pillars of upright journalism, were puzzled, pained. In Japan schoolchildren clutching Rising Sun flags paraded by the thousand through Tokyo, celebrating the Treaty of Changchun. "Ex Oriente Lux!" headlined Tokyo's erudite & patriotic Kokumin Shimbun. "Light comes from the East! Japan and Manchukuo have become the centre of the world with Japan standing as the Guide to Civilization. . . . What care we for the jealousy and oppression of the Western Powers? Whatever the persecution to be suffered and the sacrifices demanded, we must surmount...
...AMERICANS ARE SPYING IN JAPAN!" splashed out Tokyo's chauvinistic Kokumin Shimbun last week, exposed the horrid fact that pictures of Japanese business buildings in Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe have recently been taken by branch officials of Manhattan's far flung National City Bank...