Word: shidehara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shadow of a shady past rose last week to smite ambitious Ichiro Hatoyama. His Liberal Party had won a thumping plurality in Japan's first postwar Diet elections; after long hesitation Premier Shidehara had recommended the stocky, 63-year-old politico to the Emperor as his successor. Then the Allied Supreme Commander spoke. "The Japanese Government," said a MacArthur directive, "having failed to act on its own responsibility, the Supreme Commander has determined the facts relative to Hatoyama's eligibility . . . finds he is an undesirable person." Hatoyama...
Derevyanko started with lots of chips. Since almost all Japanese public men were tainted with militarism, it would not be difficult to strike at MacArthur by bringing charges against members of any government that might be formed. Premier Kijuro Shidehara was about to resign because he had received little support in the recent elections; the man who had received the most support was Ichiro Hatoyama, head of the Liberal Party, who was well-smeared with anti-democratic stain (TIME, April...
...wrangled for 466 parliamentary seats. They ranged from sturdy Kenshin Izumi of the Buddhist priesthood, which recently organized for politics, to efficient Miss Shidzue Yamaguchi, a typist sponsored by Christian Leader Toyohiko Kagawa. A few Communists had been stoned. The Communists had mobbed the residence of Premier Baron Kijuro Shidehara. One radical had even called the Emperor "that guy," a bit of new liberty the legality of which was under study by the high courts...
Japan's imitative ability last week turned to politics. Emperor Hirohito and his Shidehara Cabinet, with General MacArthur's enthusiastic endorsement, offered the Japanese 16 closely typed pages of a new Constitution which forswears armies and war, guarantees civil rights, deprives the peerage of its privileges, promises the people an end of police tyranny. Now, with complete responsibility placed squarely on the Cabinet, and the Cabinet made fully answerable to the Diet, Japan would have a form of government more sensitive to democratic pressures...
Something New. The unprecedented no-war clause was the new document's most remarkable. "War . . . is forever renounced as a means of dealing with other nations. The maintenance of land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be authorized." Prime Minister Shidehara and the Tokyo press called on other nations to follow Japan down the sawdust trail. Said Asahi importantly: "World peace cannot be maintained by the unilateral act of Japan alone...