Word: shigeru
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...Mammon were becoming entangled. Shinsho Temple's plump, leathery Abbot Araki had to journey 40 miles to Tokyo to find out where his temple and its 350 employees stood under the new Labor Standards Act. So far his only word of encouragement has come from Temple Warehouse Keeper Shigeru Shinohara, head of the union of which 252 temple workers (including all 22 priests) are members. "We want regular wages," Shigeru said, "but no regular eight-hour working days. Sometimes a whole delegation of believers shows up late at night, and we are quite agreeable to working odd hours...
...letter was as barren of endearments as the salutation. Shigeru Yoshida's Government, it said, had better take prompt steps to tighten Japan's economy and wipe out its black markets, or it could expect no help from the Allies...
...prevent a scheduled Tokyo general strike, SCAP (Supreme Command, Allied Powers) probably saved the conservative Yoshida Government (the strike's real target), but it also pushed labor toward the left-and persuaded many unionists that MacArthur had developed a filicidal anti-union bent. Since then, Premier Shigeru Yoshida's failure to curb inflation has increased tension, and has confronted SCAP with a set of unattractive alternatives: 1) to abandon all strike control and risk governmental and production collapse; 2) to take over immediately full economic direction of Japan, thus puppetizing the government; or 3) to invoke drastic measures...
...provisions renouncing war and abolishing a Japanese army, navy and air force. Their reason: if Japan had no arms, the U.N. might never accept her as a member because she could not execute her obligation to contribute to the world police force. Said Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida: "The question of the renunciation of war is one that might be taken up after the Peace Conference...
...Supreme Commander gave his blessing to Shigeru Yoshida as Japan's third postwar premier...