Word: wasabi
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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Just before the election, one of Yoshida's opponents, Communist Sanzo Nozaka, had said: "Compared to the other Japanese parties we are now merely the dash of wasabi (horseradish) which flavors the sashimi (raw fish). We must become the sashimi, too." In the election, Communist seats rose from four to 35, their popular vote from 3.6% in 1947 to 10.5%. The Communists were not yet the whole sashimi] the voters would have four years to decide whether they liked quite so hot a seasoning...