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...Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Roh, meeting U.S. demands could be political suicide. In a survey last month by the daily Asahi Shimbun, 55% of the Japanese public was against sending troops to Iraq. Koizumi's plan to dispatch the S.D.F. has been criticized by his coalition partner the New Komeito and by the opposition Democratic Party of Japan, which did so well in last week's parliamentary elections that pundits are heralding a new era of two-party democracy...
...more obscure figures who claim to have found the secret of universal happiness and peace for all time. Though these leaders may collect a great deal of money from their followers--and though the involvement of the Soka Gakkai in national politics through its own political party, the Komeito, is widely criticized--most of these religions are relatively harmless...
...with him in return for its support. Nakasone must then cope with the opposition. The Socialist Party, under its energetic new leader, Masashi Ishibashi, 59, strengthened its position as the mam opposition party by picking up eleven seats, for a total of 112. In its best showing ever, the Komeito (Clean Government) Party won 58 seats, up from 31. The Democratic Socialists elected 38 deputies, a gain of six, while the New Liberal Club, an L.D.P. offshoot, lost two of its ten seats...
...turned out, the popular vote was not so damning. The L.D.P. drew 45.8%, down from a record 47.9% in the last election in 1980 but still about the average percentage for the party over the past five elections. The Komeito picked up 10.1%, only a slight improvement over its 1980 total of 9%, while the Socialists bettered their performance by an even smaller margin (19.5% to 19.3%). Nakasone, on the other hand, did not even come in first in his own Gumma prefecture, north of Tokyo: for the fifth straight election, he finished second in the three-seat district...
...mainly in California. Soka Gakkai teaches that continual repetition of the phrase Namu Myoho Renge Kyo, derived from the title of the Lotus Sutra, one of the Buddhist scriptures, is the key to success, happiness and the good life. The group has produced a political offshoot, Komeito (Clean Government Party), with the third largest number of members in Japan's legislature. The growth of the new religions has slackened since the late 1960s, apparently because of increased affluence and secularization...