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...infernal. About 74,000 were killed instantly. The Urakami Catholic church, which had the country's largest Christian congregation at the time, was destroyed; more than two-thirds of the congregation died as a result of the bombing. "It was as if a giant had crushed it," says Takako Yoshida, then 18, who saw one of the church's two mammoth bell towers lying in the river below as she was being carried out on a stretcher three days later...
...last year, it appeared as if a new wave of feminism was sweeping Japan, raising a clamorous challenge to age-old male authority. It began when housewives, enraged by a new tax, swarmed to political rallies, urging that a "voice from the kitchen" reach the male-dominated government. Socialist Takako Doi, the first woman in Japanese history to lead a major political party, inspired an unprecedented number of women to run for the Diet's upper house, and they grabbed a record number of seats. Prime Minister Sousuke Uno resigned in disgrace after a former geisha he had patronized broke...
...opposition was far from convinced. Takako Doi, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, the largest opposition group, called the legislation the "greatest threat to the constitution since the war." Student organizations staged peace demonstrations. Even some members of Kaifu's own party suggested that if the legislation failed, the Prime Minister and his Cabinet should resign and an election should be called as a referendum on the issue. Said Yozo Yokota, a law professor at International Christian University: "This is a historic turning point in Japanese politics and diplomacy...
Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu came out punching when the campaign for this month's legislative elections began in the lower house of the Diet last week. Kaifu deftly defended his ruling Liberal Democratic Party against corruption charges and attacks on the ten-month-old consumption tax. Conceded Socialist leader Takako Doi: "He's done his homework...
Foreign analysts continue to doubt that Doi and her Socialists will soon rule Japan. Says Richard Holbrooke, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs: "The chances of Doi's becoming Prime Minister are just tiny." The Japanese, however, know better than to tell Takako Doi what she can and cannot do. They remember the deputy mayor of Kobe...