"Mr. Miyazawa is a Class C war criminal," said Seiichi Ota, a young member of the Liberal Democratic Party, in a coldly measured tone. Frowns of consternation crossed the faces of the party Old Guard at the head of the table. "The public detests the look and smell of the L.D.P.!" warned Jinen Nagase, a party man from western Japan. Defying the tradition that youth must respect age, junior members of Japan's long-ruling party turned last week's postmortem session about the historic loss at the polls into a brawl of nasty taunts and fraying tempers. It was time, they demanded, for...
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