Word: seiyuhonto
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Throughout Nippon the tactful, fluttering geisha- and her lusty sister the joro have given rise at last to a political issue between the Kenseikai (Conservative Party) of Premier Wakatsuki and his erst- while† supporters, the Seiyuhonto (True Friends Party). The pub- licists of these embattled partisans, in their effort to cast blame for the Yoshiwara of Tokyo upon their opponents, have stirred the Japan- ese press to investigate the seat of responsibility for such resorts of incontinence throughout the Empire. Despatches reported last week that so many statesmen of both the Government Party and the opposition have been found...
...appointed Minister of Home Affairs Reijiro Wakatsuki to be Premier pro tempore. As everyone knows, he is the leader of the late Premier's party, the Kensei-Kai, which holds 151 of the 464 seats in the Japanese Diet, 35 seats more than the second largest party, the Seiyuhonto...
...TIME, May 18) he managed by process of amalgamation to swell his party's numbers from 100 to 150, making it the second largest party in the Diet. He began negotiations with the Seiyuhonto President, M. Tokonami, urged him to join the Seiyukai Party which would then have an absolute majority of the votes with 266 seats...
Final results of the Japanese election (TIME, May 19), show an overwhelming defeat for Premier Kiyoura and his Cabinet: GOVERNMENT: Seiyuhonto* ... 120 OPPOSITION...
...Seiyuhonto Party and the Seiyukai Party were formerly united under the latter name. The death of Takashi Kara, who fell by the hand of an assassin in 1921, deprived the Seiyukai (Constitutional Society) of its leader, and the Party eventually split owing to internal discord, one part taking the name of Seiyuhonto, meaning "original Constitutional Party...