Word: kono
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More disturbing is that 20% of Japanese high school students admit they need a drink several times a week just to keep going on the academic mill. Dr. Hiroaki Kono. Japan's leading expert on alcoholism, warns: "If this catches fire it would be like matches on oil. We are the most permissive people in the world as regards alcohol...
...major factions-led by aging, godfather-like powerbrokers-that have traditionally controlled the L.D.P. Fukuda has promised to dissolve his own 78-man bloc as an example to others. Yet his first appointments to top party and Cabinet posts last week seemed carefully deferential to factional interests. Scoffs Yohei Kono, a former L.D.P. member who now heads a bloc of 18 conservalive lower house representatives: "Nobody believes that Fukuda will be able to dramatically change the system in his party...
...radical alternatives. Among the strongest evidence of that was the pounding the Communists took at the polls. Voters apparently shied away from giving them real power as the L.D.P. weakened. Indeed, last week's most striking gains were scored by the centrist New Liberal Club, led by Yohei Kono, 39, who broke from the L.D.P. last June. Of the 25 candidates Kono fielded, 17 won, an astonishing triumph for a new party in Japan. Kono told TIME last week: "We're not socialists. But we insist on equality of opportunity. We want fair competition in business. We want...