From: SHIMOKOSHI@nvdv.e-technik.uni-stuttgart.dbp.de (K. SHIMOKOSHI)
Subject: Comments on Politics (Re: Kanemaru's latest stunt)
Keywords: politics, Kanemaru, Takeshita, Miyazawa
Organization: University of Stuttgart, IND (FRG)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:23:49 GMT
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I was disappointed with that there were few comments on Kanamaru-Takeshita
mondai from japanese.  It is currently a most important matter which we have
to keep our eyes on and should discuss, isn't it?

For the past years The Prime Ministers were changed as follows;
 
      Eisaku Sato
      Kakuei Tanaka       :   Lockheed scandal
      Takeo Miki
      Takeo Fukuda
      Masayoshi Ohira
      Zenko Suzuki        :   Kyowa scandal (?)
      Yasuhiro Nakasone
      Noboru Takeshita    :   Gang (Boryokudan) scandal
      Sosuke Uno          :   Scandal with a woman (Geisha)
      Toshiki Kaifu
      Kiichi Miyazawa     :   Recruit scandal

Eisaku Sato was a superior Prime Minister who contributed greately to the
Japan-U.S. Security and was awarded the Nobel prize.  This year is the 20th
anniversary since diplomatic relations between Japan and China were restored
by Kakuei Tanaka in 1972.  It means that in Japan the Prime Minister were
changed 10 times in past 20 years !  And 5 of them, Tanaka, Suzuki, Takeshita,
Uno, and Miyazawa have given rise to the scandals !  Furthermore, Michio
Watanabe, the Vice Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister, who is a strong
candidate for the next Prime Minister in the next election, has something to do
with the Recruit scandal, too.

Japanese politics has been carried out by factinal strife between the
mainstrean factions and non-mainstream factions in the LDP.  The recent words
which on japanese politics are; San-Kaku-Dai-Fuku-Tyu (means Miki, Tanaka,
Ohira, Fukuda, and Nakasone), An-Chiku-Gu (means Abe, takeshita, and Miyazawa),
then Kon-Chiku-Sho (means Kanemaru, Takeshita, and Ozawa).  The first two
words show the showdown between some factions.  The last one, however, indicates
the domination by the Takeshita faction,  and it caused Kanemaru-Takeshita
mondai.

Although the Prime Minister Miyazawa is unpopular among the citizens, he is my
favorite politician.  The reasons are that when 3 of An-Chiku-Gu have run for
the presidential election of the LDP, he has visited the grave of the former
Prime Minister Kishi first of all, during the other two have held magnificient
union parties, and he is very obstinate, then he is recognized as a tough-
negotiator in foreign countries.  I believe that he will declare and perform
against the money power politics, the corruption of political ethics, and the
bribery case after the budget committee.

I'd like to suggest some proposals.

Suggestions which are possible to realize;   
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(1) propotinal representation system for the House of Councilors and
    small constituency system for the House of Representatives,
(2) the right to vote for the general election but not for the local election
    for thouse who reside in foreign countries,
 
Suggestions which are impossible to realize;   
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(1) the election for the Prime Minister by citizens voting,
    if it would be adopted, Shintaro Ishihara or Ryutaro Hashimoto could become
    the Prime Minister.
(2) annulment of the faction,
    I don't think the fraction based on policy is bad.  Recent fractions,
    however, are based on money and adhere to only the factional strife.


BTW, does anybody correct and satisfy my knowledge ?

           ?
    Sato  ---> Tanaka   ---> Takeshita   --+--> Obuchi (Kajiyama)
                             (Kanemaru)    | 
                                           +--> Haneda (Ozawa)

      ?   ---> Miki     ---> Komoto        ---> ?
                             (Kaifu)
           ?
    Ikeda ---> Nakasone ---> Watanabe
           ?
    Kishi ---> Ohira    ---> Suzuki        ---> Miyazawa ( ---> Kono?)
 
      ?   ---> Fukuda   ---> Abe           ---> Mitsuzuka

 

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  Kiyoshi Shimokoshi
  Institut of Communications Switching and Data Technics,
  University of Stuttgart,
  F.R.Germany
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