Word: koyama
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scandal broke in mid-April, when police arrested Sadao Koyama, newly elected speaker of Tokyo's 120-man Metropolitan Assembly, on charges that he had bribed and extorted his way to the speaker's chair-and the $55,000-a-year expense account that goes with it. Before the dust cleared, 18 other assemblymen, all Liberal Democrats, had followed Koyama into jail, and a storm of public outrage forced the assembly to dissolve itself in shame. Little wonder that a nationwide public opinion poll late last month showed Sato's popularity at an alltime...