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...monk Daruma, who founded the Zen sect 1,500 years ago. Then, if his wish is fulfilled, he completes the Daruma's missing eye as a symbol of gratitude for otherworldly intervention. Last week, in the Tokyo headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Premier Eisaku Sato dipped a sumi brush into an inkstone and with swift strokes daubed in the dark right eye of his Daruma. "The eyes," he remarked when he had finished...
...well they might be. Sato's conservative Liberal Democratic Party had entered Japan's tenth postwar election with the expectation of a setback. The government was wreathed in a "black mist" of Cabinet-level corruption charges, harassed by catapulting consumer prices and a hostile press. Besides, there was worry about the reaction of a nervously pacifist nation to Sato's support of the U.S. stand in Viet Nam. In view of all this, many conservatives feared losses of as many as 40 seats in the 486-man Lower House. But when the votes were in, Liberal Democrats...
...during recent years, but most Japanese were appalled and repelled by the events of the past several months. It was in this mood that they voted, and their votes were as much against the pro-Peking direction of the Japanese Socialist Party as they were for the conservatism of Sato. Japan feels that it is staring over the brink of madness, and it does not like what it sees...
When conservative Premier Eisaku Sato dissolved the Diet last December, it appeared that the major issue in the campaign would be the charges of corruption that had wreathed his Cabinet in "Black Mist." Not so. Japan's newspapers have been dominated-and the public mind captured-by the chaotic events next door in Red China. Campaigning from snowy northern Honshu to sunny Shikoku, Sato was quick to take advantage of the public preoccupation. "We must never become like our neighbor," Sato cried in village after village last week. "Over there, there's no freedom, and without freedom...
Uncomfortable Majority. Most observers feel that Sato will win a majority in the 486-seat lower house, but that his "comfortable" majority of 278 seats may be whittled down toward the minimum majority of 244 seats. If that happens, he might find it necessary to call another election later in the year...