Foreign News: Fighting Premier

Deputies of the Imperial Diet hurled Gargantuan phonetic sequences at one another in a loud and angry tone. In the galleries, fist fights were of frequent occurrence. The Kensei-kai and the Seiyu-kai (chief political parties) were at it again, with the Seiyu-honto alternately baiting and encouraging both. There was drawing to a close perhaps the stormiest session of the Imperial Diet in many years. Reijiro Wakatsuki. Above the squabbling undersized Deputies towered an old man, six feet in his stockings, who is still the amateur jiu-jitsu champion of Japan despite his 60 years....

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