JAPAN: Greatest Victory

Japan's famed "Old Fox," Premier Ki Inukai, won the Japanese Election last week chiefly by starting Japan's drive against Shanghai on election morn (see p. 21).

The Old Fox has won his seat in Japan's Diet in every election since the Diet was created in 1890. Last week aged 77, "The Foxiest Man in the World" crowned his career by leading his "War Party" (Seiyukai) to what was said to be the greatest parliamentary victory ever won in Japan. The Seiyukai won 301 seats out of the 466.

In Japan the Government of the Old Fox is so widely discredited...

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