Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...political thunderbolt, craftily prepared, was hurled by Prime Minister Baron Giichi Tanaka, last week, in an effort to weaken the Opposition parties by discrediting their extreme left wing, the Ronoto or Farmer-Laborites. The vital import of the Ronoto is that its two Deputies give the Opposition a theoretical plurality of two over the Government parties, in the newly elected Diet (TIME, March 5) which will shortly assemble. Numbers: Opposition, including Ronoto, 228; Government, 226; and Independents...
Last week Prime Minister Baron Güchi Tanaka of the Seiyukai party obtained 221 seats. There appeared only one other party of comparable size, the Minseito, with 214. Definitely inferior are the 16 Independents, the 8 Laborites, the 4 Business Party deputies, and the 3 members of the Kakushin Club...
Though neither of the Big Two has of itself a majority, Premier Baron Tanaka professed and was generally conceded the ability to obtain the few minority votes which he needs to carry on, according to the official returns. The great facts are two: 1) This was the first Japanese election under the new suffrage law which increased the number of the electorate from 3,000,000 to some 12,000,000; 2) Of this new electorate 81% went to the polls and returned only two predominating parties...
When the Diet reassembled, last week, to complete its winter sessions, Prime Minister Baron Guchi Tanaka found that the long shaky coalition support of his cabinet was disintegrating and straightway took dramatic action...
Ascending the Tribune he delivered a masterful defense of his policies, and then, before the Opposition could reply, produced an Imperial rescript dissolving the Diet. By this stratagem Premier Tanaka secured the widest possible publicity for a speech which amounted to the electoral platform of his party, and at the same time checkmated the Opposition's desire to air its contrary platform in the Diet...