Word: minshu
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...lusty singing and shouted the stiff commands were more positive in their views. Artilleryman Sei-saku Akimoto, leader of the Russian-sponsored Minshu Ka Undo (Democratic Movement) in his camp, said: "The Russians trust us and we trust the Russians. We soon found out from our newspapers there how we had been duped by fascists and capitalists." Snapped former Pfc. Tsugio Kishimoto, prison company commander: "We must all join the Communist Party. It is our only chance to build a new, democratic Japan...
...weakening the Army and Navy. The forms and manners of party rule were not new to the Japs, whose Diet (Parliament) is 55 years old. But the feel and substance of freedom were entirely new. The plain people, worried about food and work and shelter, had little time for minshu shugi (democracy) as the Americans understood...
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