Citizen SatoJapan's John Citizen likes his country's forays into China, its big army and navy, but he never liked the casualty lists, the crushing taxes. He gasped fortnight ago when the Navy asked for its all-time high in budget appropriations: $190,400,000. The Government will not vote on the new budget until next winter. In the meantime it gave the Army and Navy free rein to try to supplant Citizen Sato's fear of taxes with another fear, more favorable to big Navy budgets. For three days last week Tokyo, the world's third biggest...
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