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...occupation from a militarist thought-control system, only to be gulled by the exponents of a worse tyranny. The 500,000-strong Japanese Teachers Union, representing two-thirds of the country's teachers, is noisy, well knit-and dominated by Communists. This week Diet members from Premier Shigeru Yoshida's government party produced two bills designed to curb the union's new Communist-line politicking. Unfortunately, the bills seemed to approach the old thought-control methods...
Opening the Diet last week, frock-coated Emperor Hirohito pleaded for taibo seikatsu-austerity living. Two days later, foxy old Premier Shigeru Yoshida explained what the austerity is for: to check Japan's ominous inflation, and, by stern cuts in government civil spending, to make room in Yoshida's trillion-yen ($2,780,000,000) budget for Japan's burgeoning rearmament...
...Americans turned their native ingenuity to a new game they called "relay race." They set up "imperialist dummies" of Dulles, Adenauer, Chiang Kaishek, Syngman Rhee and Japan's Shigeru Yoshida. They chose sides, one to each "imperialist." The lead-off men then sprinted 100 yards to their imperialists, clouted them on the heads with cudgels and ran back to start off their No. 2s. The No. 25 then attacked the imperialists, and the game went on until the dummies lay torn in shreds. The Communist propaganda game would presumably continue too-until the P.W.s lay broken and worn...
Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida is well aware that U.S. spending will drop even more this year. To meet the situation he has ordered government departments to trim their budgets. But Japan's growing defense forces will make heavy demands on the treasury. So will the severe rice shortage resulting from Japan's recent floods (TIME, Oct. 12). Yoshida's 1954 budget, announced last week, totals 994.3 billion yen ($2.76 billion), which is 32 billion yen less than actual expenditures last year. But-significantly-the new figure is 33.8 billion yen higher than the original...
...apan's Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida? . . . He has been heading the Japanese government for more than five years, longer than any other Japanese Prime Minister...