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...week Ikeda's government decided the reins could safely be loosened a little, lowered the official bank interest rate by 0.3% to 6.57%-back to where it was before the clampdown. Japanese businessmen were delighted, but they still managed to pull a poor mouth. Says Fuji Steel President Shigeo Nagano: "I would like to see the government now embark on a general relaxation of financial curbs, otherwise it is going to be a long, slow climb back to prosperity''-Japanese style, that...
Resemblance of Things Past. In Tokyo, after beating four women with a cudgel, Plasterer Shigeo Yokoyama, 30, explained that all of them resembled his wife, with whom he had feuded earlier...
...five years Japan's "Little Stalin" was a teak-jawed, cold-eyed ex-factory worker named Shigeo Shida. All other top Communists had fled to China after General MacArthur ordered a crackdown on Communists in 1950. Shida stayed, went underground and took over command by default. A hardened revolutionary with a taste for cold-blooded intrigue and a record of twelve years in prison, Shida built up a strong following among the younger, tougher comrades. He appointed himself chief of the party's "military committee," decreed a policy of unflinching violence. "We must always be prepared to give...
...Died. Shigeo Odachi, 63, iron-fisted director of the General Affairs Bureau in Japan's puppet Manchukuo government, wartime mayor of Singapore, Home Minister (1944), member of the Diet since 1953; of cancer; in Tokyo...
...clean up this situation, Premier Yoshida last winter instructed Education Minister Shigeo Odachi to draft legislation outlawing the teaching of Communism in the nation's schools. Odachi-former Home Minister and boss of Japan's infamous wartime police, who was barred from public office during the U.S. occupation-happily obliged, but the remedy he produced looked to many almost as bad as the disease it was designed to cure. As passed by the Lower House of the Diet, Odachi's bill would have made it a criminal offense for any teacher to espouse the cause...