Word: shishi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Yuko Hamaguchi, the new Prime Minister, third untitled Prime Minister of Japan,* leader of the Minseito (Liberal party). He is called Shishi ("The Lion") because of his Lloyd-Georgian hair and mustache, his roaring voice, unusual in a Japanese. Actually he looks less like a lion than a quiet, white-headed chow. Not affluent, Shishi has a reputation for the highest integrity. A Liberal, an economist, he is expected to be more flexible and progressive than the Conservative government just fallen. Twice Minister in previous cabinets, popular for his eccentricities with Japan's masses, Economist Shishi...
Impartial observers considered the Hamaguchi cabinet the ablest since 1921. But roaring Shishi, like grave Ramsay MacDonald of Britain, has a minority government. Japan's parliament seats are divided as follows...