Word: seiyukai
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...Army pushed out pacific little Premier Koki Hirota four months ago and installed a "gold braid" Cabinet of generals and admirals, swashbuckling new Premier General Senjuro Hayashi has been twirling his handlebar mustaches menacingly at Japan's civilian Diet. The Diet's Minseito (majority) and Seiyukai (minority) parties were induced to swallow the largest budget in impoverished Japan's history, $802,400,000, of which more than one-half is earmarked for the Army & Navy. Last month Swashbuckler Hayashi's mustaches stiffened when the Diet finally turned stubborn, let it be known it would not pass...
...weeks Hayashi and his gold braids have been loudly proclaiming that the Minseito and Seiyukai would get a proper trimming in these elections from the militant little Showakai, Kokumin-domei. and Tohokai parties. Hence it was a considerable surprise last week when Japan went to the polls, gave Premier Hayashi a most resounding electoral slap. Of the 466 Diet seats, more than 400 went to avowed opposition parties, with the moderate Minseito actually losing ground to the rabidly anti-Hayashi Social Mass Party. So bucked up were civilian politicians that they demanded that the Cabinet resign at once, even...
...Foreign Minister Arita had to face critics of his frankly anti-Communist foreign policy. He stoutly denied he was interested in joining Japan to the Fascist group in Europe, said he wanted only to protect Manchukuo from Communist penetration. At these words, venerable Kunimatsu Hamada, a leader of the Seiyukai (minority party), rose to his feet, hurled with tacit approval of the majority party (the Minseito) furious accusations that the Army leaders aim at Fascism, that the Cabinet are "mere Army puppets!" To retort, up jumped fiery War Minister Count Terauchi. Amid civilian hoots and catcalls he said...
...Seiyukai candidates in these circumstances to campaign against the Government mainly with the charge that it had not sufficiently punished a man for writing that His Majesty is the supreme organ of the Japanese State was arrant bluff & nonsense-even in Japan. No Japanese can successfully reduce to writing what the status of the Emperor is, any more than a Christian can be precise on the status of God. As the votes were being counted last week, two Japanese armed with a letter apparently signed by a magistrate got past Dr. Minobe's police guards, chased the savant...
...Emperor is about as near democracy as the Empire ever gets, Japanese election returns were not utterly devoid of meaning. The dominant militarists remained Japan's actual rulers last week, but the final count showed that the Minseito Party, favored by the Government, had ousted the strong Seiyukai Party from first place. Notably President Kisaburo Suzuki of the Seiyukai Party himself failed to win his old seat. In all, the Minseito won 205 seats and the Seiyukai 174. This meant no more and no less than that, when Japan's militarists reshuffle the Cabinet, a few more portfolios...