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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...
...Premier. A career bureaucrat, Sato was one of the chief architects of Japan's miraculous industrial expansion. In the important ministry of trade and commerce he became one of the foremost exponents of Japan's increased international involvement. Although his rival for the premiership, Ichiro Kono, won worldwide acclaim as the top organizer most responsible for the success of the Tokyo Olympics, Sato really had the inside track. He has been Ikeda's heir apparent for more than four years-ever since his elder brother, Nobusuke Kishi,* resigned in the wave of leftist riots that forced...
...Sato and Kono are deadlocked, the most likely compromise candidate will be Aiichiro Fujiyama, 67, a sugar millionaire who was Foreign Minister in Kishi's Cabinet but does not now hold a portfolio under Ikeda. However, the last thing the Conservative-Liberals want is an eye-gouging, knee-in-groin political battle. At a party caucus last week, they voted to leave the choice of Premier up to two respected party elders rather than risk an open election. If they and the top contenders heed Ikeda's wishes, the decision will be made soon. Asking the party...