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...Guilty, "say the judges, but Tanaka refuses to step down...
...trial had plodded on for so long that when the verdict finally arrived last week, the Japanese paid almost as much attention to it as they would have to the real Judgment Day. But then, the seven-year court battle did star Kakuei Tanaka, the former Prime Minister who still reigns as the country's shrewdest powerbroker. As the dark blue Chrysler sedan wheeled Tanaka from his palatine compound on the fringes of Tokyo to the courthouse downtown, a swarm of 17 helicopters loaded with TV cameras and newsmen followed along overhead. Arriving at the Tokyo District Court, Tanaka...
During the two hours that presiding Judge Mitsunori Okada took to explain the ruling, a fidgety Tanaka gazed up at the ceiling, squinted down at his watch, folded and unfolded his ubiquitous paper fan. When Okada finally issued the verdict, Tanaka listened with his eyes closed. The three-judge panel found Tanaka guilty of having accepted $2 million in bribes from the Lockheed Corp. during the early 1970s in return for persuading Japan's largest domestic airline, All Nippon Airways, to buy the company's TriStar jets. He was sentenced to four years in prison and fined...
Yomiuri and its two largest rivals compete for scoops in the go-getter fashion of Fleet Street. Yet the Japanese newspapers can be cautious, often in concert, to the point of professional embarrassment: the 1974 allegations of financial misconduct that brought down Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka were first exposed in a magazine, Bungei Shunju; the Big Three newspapers did not pick up the story for weeks. Moreover, supposedly competing journals band together in a peculiarly Japanese institution, the "press clubs." At major sources of news (government ministries, political party headquarters, the 47 police prefectures), correspondents from daily newspapers control...
...ordinary lives cloak sadomasochistic and pathological behavior. The Cheeverish approach of Yuko Tsushima, 36 (A Bed of Grass), examines the roots of family distress and false nostalgia. Taeko Tomioka, 47, is a poet turned novelist, celebrated for her unflinching analyses of social despair. For these women, says Anthologist Yukiko Tanaka, "writing is the antithesis of the selfless submission prescribed by Japanese culture. Women writers have needed great courage to surmount the many obstacles to their attempts at such self-assertion...