Word: seiyukai
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...national resentment against "corrupt politicians" (TIME, May 23), Emperor Hirohito commanded Admiral Viscount Saito to form a new Cabinet. When this Cabinet was formed last week it proved to be a "National Government" (as in Great Britain) but almost as full of so-called "corrupt politicians" as the last Seiyukai Party Cabinet headed by "Old Fox." Specifically the Japanese national family was surprised that the Army and the Treasury have been left in exactly the same hands as before...
...closely held by five so-called "Merchant Empires" owned by the Japanese families of Mitsui, Mitsubishi, Sumitomo, Yasuda and Okura. These families have continued to wax rich during a decade of deepening Japanese depression. Every Japanese knows that their wealth has fostered corruption of both leading political parties, the Seiyukai and Minseito...
...Japan by men of politics instead of men of the sword is a new-fangled arrangement, dating de jure from the reign of Emperor Meiji who introduced an Occidental (Prussian) style of Constitution in 1889 and de facto from the founding of Japan's oldest political party (Seiyukai) in 1900. Naturally the Army & Navy with their ancient traditions scorn Japanese Constitutionalism which is only in its swaddling clothes. The lower classes (both proletarians arid peasants) tend to approve each fresh assassination of a politician or financier by a civilian or a member of the fighting services...
...that her Throne is tottering. It means merely that the Army & Navy, making the most of their Constitutional irresponsibility to the Premier and responsibility only to the Throne, have reduced step by step during the past twelvemonth the prestige of both of Japan's great political parties, her Seiyukai and her Minseito...
...everyone knows, Minseito Premier Baron Wakatsuki opposed but was unable to stop the Army's plunge into Manchuria (TIME, Sept. 28). His successor, the Seiyukai's "Old Fox,'" pandered eagerly to the Army & Navy, but the costly setback at Shanghai forced the Foreign Office to negotiate what the fighting services were bound to consider a "disgraceful withdrawal" (TIME, May 16). This, though not the fault of the "Old Fox," led him straight into a trap of Japanese swashbuckling hysteria which cost him his life last week...