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Democrats) and lag far behind Sato's party in current voter-preference polls...
...today's affluent Japan, the Socialists have had little success with their doctrinaire, Peking-lining appeals. They failed last year to block the treaty that normalized relations with Korea. Nor have they been able to force Sato to declare the country off limits to visiting U.S. nuclear-powered submarines or to dissociate Japan from the U.S. stand in Viet Nam. Though most Japanese are prospering as never before, the Socialists still rant about complete nationalization of all Japanese industry and the need for class warfare...
...other circumstances, Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato might well feel a sense of panic. There is great pressure on him to call general elections next month-at a time when his own party is beclouded in "black mists" of scandal and split by factional rivalries. But Sato seems unworried. The reason is that the main opposition party is in even worse shape than his Liberal Democrats...
...Sato's first move was a complete Cabinet overhaul aimed at ending corruption. "Make sure you separate your public and private life," Sato warned each appointee. Among the new faces: State Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, 47, an economist who will double as director of the economic planning agency; Finance Minister Mikio Mizuta, 61, a proponent of greater capital investment in industry; Foreign Minister Takeo Miki, 59, an advocate of increased Japanese aid and development projects in the rest of Asia...
With a Cabinet full of fresh faces, Sato hopes to restore confidence in the Liberal Democratic government-a confidence that has fallen from a high of 47% popular support in 1964 to a scant 25% according to last week's Asahi Shimbun poll. Though the Liberal Democrats' opponents have been fragmented for a decade, Sato wants to take no chances that his troubles might unite them before the elections...