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...Premier Kakuei Tanaka resigned 15 months ago under charges of shady financial dealings. Fearful of voter reaction, the ruling Liberal Democrats now plan to put off until the fall parliamentary elections that were expected this spring. After marathon sessions with worried party members from the Diet, Premier Takeo Miki ordered an investigation by a lower-house committee, which this week will hear testimony from key principals in the case...
...Lockheed payoffs are clearly an example of what the Japanese poetically refer to as kuroi kiri (black mist), or corruption. Ironically, Premier Miki could profit from the public anger; he has earned a reputation as his party's Mr. Clean. But Tanaka, who remained a major behind-the-scenes power in the Liberal Democratic Party after his resignation as Premier, is almost certain to be tarnished, directly or indirectly, by the new scandal...
...lucky we picked Miki," Liberal Democrats were telling each other last week. That is a new sentiment. As recently as last December, Miki's administration received an abysmal 26.6% popularity rating in a public opinion poll. His ambitious reform program had made little headway. Promised antitrust legislation ended up pigeonholed in the Diet. Inflation was slowed to a manageable 9%, but the government failed to stop price rises on necessities like rice, oil and electric power. The party's hawkish right wing blocked Miki's attempts to ratify the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Miki seemed weak and ineffective...
...their part, were annoyed by Gromyko's refusal to return to Japan the four islands in the southern Kurile chain that the Soviets had seized at the end of the war in 1945. Riled by Moscow's unwillingness to settle the long-standing quarrel, Japanese Premier Takeo Miki told Gromyko that Japan would sign the treaty with China "as soon as possible...
...Miki's decision would have pleased Chou Enlai: one of his most important foreign policy aims had been to get Tokyo to tilt more closely toward Peking than Moscow. The treaty that Miki agreed to sign last week seemed to fulfill that goal...