Word: seiyukai
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...Japanese who has good reason to loathe Japan's ruling militarists is handsome Ken Inukai, 53, four times a Diet member. In 1932 a group of young officers murdered his 77-year-old father, Premier Ki Inukai, potent Seiyukai Party leader, whose wily political opportunism brought him the nickname...
...that we can tell the American people what we have at the bottom of our hearts.") The Emperor sent him a case of sake and a cask of fish. But temporary fame began to fade. In one of his usual quick moves he resigned from the Diet and the Seiyukai Party to work for the dissolution of all parties in the interest of "national solidarity." thus becoming in late 1933 forerunner of a movement that was to bear fruit...
...urged. In the past three, when the examples of Naziism and Fascism shone so brightly in Japanese eyes, the idea grew in favor. But when Nazi legions rolled into the Lowlands and France, the Japanese could no longer resist their penchant for imitating a good thing. Late in May, Seiyukai's Kuhara urged a totalitarian party first upon his Seiyukai rival, then on the Minseito leader. Both took to the idea-providing the right leader (not Kuhara) could be found. By June 6 Kuhara had plenty of courage and supporters. On that day he presented Premier Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai...
Japanese Democracy chiefly consists of three major political parties: the "National Political" Minseito (majority), "Friendly Political" Seiyukai (minority) and Shakai Taishuto or "Social Mass Party." The first two live almost entirely upon nation-wide local graft, plus contributions from large Japanese corporations and family groups, and these two parties completely dominate the Imperial Diet. The Army & Navy have now decided that wealthy Japanese must be fleeced by semi-confiscatory taxation for the glory of the Empire, and that this glory must not be dimmed by any objections from the working class, the class from which the great majority of Japanese...
...from as many sessions as he could on the plea that he was "sick," was finally haggled into saying that the National Mobilization Bill, even if passed, would not immediately become effective, would be administered by a commission on which would sit, promised the Premier, some members of the Seiyukai and the Minseito...