Word: ono
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Closet. Politicians have always been bought and controlled in Japan; but no prewar scandals revealed such spectacular corruption as the Showa Denko case. Japanese newspaper readers began to laugh when cops flushed Banboku Ono, secretary general of the Democratic Liberal party, out of a linen closet in an inn in Kyoto where he was in hiding. They laughed again when Cabinet Member Takeo Kurusu rushed into print with an announcement that he, personally, was not involved with Showa Denko. Next week government agents raided Kurusu's home and slapped him into Kosuge...
...scion of a wealthy U.S. family -a young Yaleman, adept at billiards, girdling the globe in search of a cure for a broken heart. She was a second-class geisha in old Kyoto. But from the moment he first spied her picture outside the Ono-Tei teahouse, George D. Morgan (son of J. P. Sr.'s sister Sarah and a distant cousin, George Hale Morgan) thought more & more of fragile, fragrant O-Yuki and less & less of a frosty Miss Meta Mackay, who had broken her engagement to him back in the States...
...voting, which usually takes 30 minutes, lasted four hours. Next day, opposition members broke up a committee studying the coal bill. Manfully 57-year-old Banboku Ono, general secretary of the Liberal Party (which is conservative), slugged it out with the 49-year-old Socialist chairman of the House Steering Committee, Inejiro Asanuma. Other members-plus the stenographers-joined the battle, using notebooks for ammunition...
Each morning at sunrise Japan's most important sitting-down soldier, Premier General Hideki Tojo, rides Tokyo's streets for half an hour. Policeman Ono was overcome with trepidation one morning as the General dismounted before his box and thanked him for guarding the capital's matutinal peace...