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...Premier Shigeru Yoshida's government, of course, would like to have a large loan to tide it over, but Washington feels that pouring in money will induce another period of Japanese inertia. Washington favors more belt-tightening, more austerity, and possibly devaluation. Japanese businessmen are screaming that the amount of austerity already decreed and enforced by Yoshida is producing deflation and unemployment...
...years since Japan regained her sovereignty. For the first time in the Diet's 64-year history, Tokyo's metropolitan police were called to restore order. In the eye of the storm, yet seemingly untouched by it, was astute, crusty and supremely confident Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida, 75, whose friends and admirers call him the ablest and most important figure in today's Japan, and whose foes call him a "shameless dictator...
When the police finally stopped the fighting, some 50 persons (including 24 cops) had been injured by punches, kicks, scratches, bites, falls, or blows inflicted by undetermined objects. Next day Shigeru Yoshida called on Emperor Hirohito to apologize for the obloquy that Japanese legislators had brought on their country. In the Diet, the upper house passed the police bill by standing vote, the Socialists abstaining...
Japanese Premier Shigeru Yoshida was cleaning up loose ends and packing his bags last week when the Socialist opposition made a sudden proposal that the Diet "advise" the Premier to call off his impending tour...
...When a cooking pot begins to stink, it's time to put the lid on." That was the advice the influential Tokyo Shimbun recently flung at Premier Shigeru Yoshida, 75. A government corruption scandal of Teapot Dome proportions threatened to overturn Yoshida's conservative coalition government. Everyone wondered whether shrewd, durable Premier Yoshida would be able to meet this challenge...