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...Diet convenes this week. But choosing a Cabinet and awarding committee posts will be more difficult and time consuming as each L.D.P. faction makes its deal 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...
...EMPEROR'S LAST SOLDIERS by Itō Masashi. 191 pages. Coward-McCann...
...most Japanese, World War II ended in 1945. Not, however, for Sergeant Itō Masashi, a machine gunner in the Imperial Army. Separated from his unit during the American invasion of Guam in July 1944, Itō fled with two comrades into the jungle-and hid there until 1960, convinced throughout that a Japanese task force would soon arrive to drive the enemy away. This book is his account of his 16-year struggle in the jungle and his torment upon return. It is disjointed in places, and it suffers somewhat from a translator bent on changing...
...ordeals are still not over. In the U.S. military hospital in Guam, nothing could convince him that the war was over-or that the Americans were not somehow rigging a trap to kill him. Repatriated to his village in Japan, where his father had erected a monument, Masashi found it impossible to shake off the instincts of the hunted animal. Every sound in the night awakens him in panic. "I understand well enough that there's not the slightest element of danger," Itō writes, "but my senses won't acknowledge this conclusion. Once it has taken hold...
While everybody else was watching the side show, the Japanese were tending to business. Masashi Ouchi set a world record in weight lifting, hoisting a total of 1,003 lbs. to win the middleweight championship. Japan swept all 28 gold medals in swimming, dominated the track and field events, won first places in everything from badminton to bicycling. When the games finally ended, with a five-gun salute and the singing of Auld Lang Syne, the cool-headed Japanese had captured 218 gold, silver and bronze medals-167 more than their closest competitors...