Word: yoshida
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Japanese Premier Shigeru Yoshida was cleaning up loose ends and packing his bags last week when the Socialist opposition made a sudden proposal that the Diet "advise" the Premier to call off his impending tour...
...clean up this situation, Premier Yoshida last winter instructed Education Minister Shigeo Odachi to draft legislation outlawing the teaching of Communism in the nation's schools. Odachi-former Home Minister and boss of Japan's infamous wartime police, who was barred from public office during the U.S. occupation-happily obliged, but the remedy he produced looked to many almost as bad as the disease it was designed to cure. As passed by the Lower House of the Diet, Odachi's bill would have made it a criminal offense for any teacher to espouse the cause...
Solidly backed by Yoshida, the bill passed the Lower House by a vote of 256 to 137. But when it came before the Upper House last week, members balked. Instead of fines and jail sentences, they substituted "administrative punishment," i.e., reprimands or dismissals, which are seldom enforced in Japan. It was 75-year-old Premier Yoshida's first rebuff of the present Diet session...
...Diet convened to decide Yoshida's fate, members hurled angry insults across the chamber and demonstrators showered spectators and legislators with Yoshida-must-go leaflets. Through it all, Yoshida sat impassively, twirling his silver-headed cane. When the votes came...
...Narrow but safe," breathed a relieved Yoshida supporter. Having again proved himself the most powerful man in Japan, Yoshida climbed into his black Chrysler to motor back to his Oiso retreat, there to take off his wing collar and brown business suit, slip into a comfortable kimono and white tabi, and contemplate his forthcoming trip to the U.S. and Europe...