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Scandals knocking popularity of ruling party in Japan
TOKYO. Dec 20: After the relative calm of the previous two years, scandals returned to the forefront of Japanese politics In 1992. knocking the popularity of the ruling party but failing to undo its grip on power, reports AFP.
Two unfolding scandals did not prevent the victory of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) — tn power since 1955 — in July elections to the upper house of parliament. The opposition had made substantial gains in previous elections In the wake of the 1989 recruit scandal.
The year began with the arrest of former minister Fumio Abe. a close colleague of Prime
Minister Kiichl Miyazawa, for taking bribes worth 700,000 dollars from the steel manufacturer Kyowa. He was charged in February.
At around the same time, the Japanese press began to uncover a second scandal of unprecedented magnitude. It is reported tn the press to have involved 700 million dollars of payoffs made by the Tokyo Saigawa Kyubtn Trucking Company to some 200 politicians, mainly from the LDP.
After several weeks the scandal disappeared from the headlines, only to reemerge. with force in August with former LDP kingmaker Shin
Kanemaru's dramatic admission he had received money from Sagawa Kyubin.
In a hastily organised press conference, Kanemaru, 78, resigned his position as vice president of the LDP after admitting to taking 500 million yen (4.2 million dollars) in undeclared political funds from the firm shortly before the 1990 elections.
Two month* later, he bowed to outraged public opinion by resigning all his other posts Including his parliamentary seat a* continuing revelations pointed to links between the LDP and the Yakuza, or Japanese underworld.
Although connection* be-
tween the conservative ruling party and right- wing gangsters — who act as Intermediaries and henchman within Japan's corridors of power — have existed since the end of World War II, this was almost the first time they had been, made public.
The Japanese public was shocked to learn Kanemaru had resorted" io Intervention by the godfather of the second largest Yakuza group, the Inagawa Kai, to put an end to a campaign by the extreme right to prevent Noboru Takeshita's 1987 election to the LDP presidency and, in turn, the premiership-
The Yakuza intervention was reportedly arranged on Kanemaru's behalf by Hlroyasu Watanable, former president of Sagawa Kyubin, which — besides its payoff* to politician* — had made loans to the Inagawa Kai.
, Despite its magnitude and the dramatic drop in the LDP's opinion poll ratings. Kenji Ino. author of a book on Link* Between Japan's Right-Wing and the Yakuza, doubted the latest scandal would lead to an effective clean up of Japanes polities.
As long as the present style of politic* remains unchanged and tt costs hundred* of million* of yen to get a newcomer
elected, there will be no other choice than to reach out for dirty money," he said.
"It Is quite usual in Japan for scandals to hit political don* at the end of their career," said Cornelia Meyer, a political analysts at the union bank of Switzerland, recalling the case of former Prime Minister Kakuet Tanaka
Tanaka was heavily tmpli rated In the 1970* Lockheed scandal after dominating the political scene for about a decade.
Former premiers Yasukhiro Nakasone and Takeshita were likewise implicated In the recruit scandal.