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...coup de grace was a 61 -page expose published by the respected monthly magazine Bungei-Shunju (see THE PRESS). Documenting various ru mors and allegations, the periodical ran a devastating chronicle of Tanaka's financial dealings through dummy cor porations, secret bank accounts, incomplete tax statements and the use of vast amounts of money to buy support within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.). Tanaka clung to office just long enough to welcome President Ford to Tokyo. Five days after Ford's departure, Tanaka did what most Japanese expected of him. He said he was "solely to blame...
...weeks after Richard Nixon resigned last August, the editors of Bungei-Shunju, a respected Tokyo-based monthly, decided to do a little Watergate-style digging into the shady financial dealings of their own chief executive. Largely as a result of those excavations, Premier Kakuei Tanaka was forced last week to resign...
...Bungei-Shunju's feat would have been a coup in any country. But in Japan, where the press seldom mentions the private peccadillos of government leaders, it was an unprecedented display of hara (guts). The nation's last major political scandal, the 1966 "black mist" influence-peddling affair, went unreported in the press until the matter came before the Diet. This time, Bungei-Shunju 's disclosures were ignored for nearly a fortnight. It was only when foreign reporters grilled Tanaka about the article that big Japanese dailies began to print disapproving editorials. Since then, not one publication...
...Stuff. Bungei-Shunju is an unlikely rebel against this system. Founded in 1923 by a now deceased novelist, it is predictable, patriotic, and conservative. The cover of its November issue, on which the explosive 61-page "An Anatomy of Kakuei Tanaka, His Money and His Men" is noted in small type, shows five placid pigeons pecking away amid fallen autumn leaves. Bungei-Shunju's 700,000 readers typically buy the magazine for its reportage, fiction and travel articles. Bungei-Shunju has only ten editorial staffers, and major pieces are written by freelancers...
...booked air passage to Moscow for the end of this month. "Mr. Hatoyama," said one of his aides, "will be quite satisfied even if his health collapses in the course of negotiations." Echoing public dismay at the Prime Minister's prospective surrender to the Russians, the monthly Bungei-Shunju retorted: "We are not worried about Hatoyama's body. We are worried about his mind...