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...cannot convince Japanese voters that he is cracking down on corruption, his Liberal Democrats, who have ruled Japan since 1955, could have their parliamentary majority sharply reduced in elections later this year. The depth of public feeling is indicated by a letter from a right-wing organization to Yoshio Kodama, Lockheed's secret agent in Japan. The letter demanded that Kodama atone for taking $7 million from Lockheed by "committing ritual hara-kiri...
...Japan, elections that had been expected this spring will almost surely be postponed until at least the fall while the ruling Liberal Democratic Party tries to repair the damage to its public image caused by revelations that Lockheed bribes in Japan totaled $12.6 million. Some $7 million went to Yoshio Kodama, a founder and onetime major bankroller of the party; the payments coincided with unexpected purchases in 1960 of Lockheed F-104 Starfighters by the Japanese government and the ordering in 1972 of six Lockheed TriStar jetliners by All Nippon Airways. The Japanese Diet will hold hearings on the affair...
After a corporation has agreed to make a payoff, the problem arises of how to transfer the money. Speed and secrecy are the obvious requirements for such exchanges, but sometimes the methods are astonishingly unsubtle. Part of the $7 million paid by Lockheed to Yoshio Kodama, the company's secret agent in Japan, arrived in yen-filled packing crates. Some of the rest was passed a bit more discreetly, in the form of checks made out to "bearer." Still, Kodama signed receipts for the equivalent of $2 million, and translations of the receipts were among documents given...
...Yoshio Kodama...
...Kobayashi, Institute of Business Administration and Management; Kazutoyo Komatsu, Trio Electronics, Inc.; Tatsuya Komatsu, Simul International, Inc.; Masao Kunihiro, Kokusai Shoka College; Teiji Makikawa, Fujitsu Ltd.; Isao Makino, Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd.; Jiro Mayekawa, Teijin Ltd.; Yohei Mimura, Mitsubishi Corp.; Masafumi Misu, Hitachi, Ltd.; Rihei Nagano, Kubota, Ltd.; Yoshio Narita, Yamaichi Securities Co., Ltd.; Yoshiro Neo, Sumitomo Shoji Kaisha, Ltd.; Saburo Oyama, Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.; Kazuo Saitoh, Sharp Corp.; Keizo Saji, Suntory Ltd.; Yutaka Sugi, Nippon Kogaku K.K.; Tomejiro Tanaka, Marubeni Corp.; Kazuo Ueda, Minolta Camera, Ltd.; Hiroko Yokoyama, Simul International, Inc.; Noboru Yoshii, Sony Corp...