Press translations [Japan]. Political Series 0227, 1946-01-26.
Date26 January, 1946
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POLITICAL SERIES: 227
ITEM 1 Political Action is Free Except During School Hours-The Niigata Nipo (NIIGATA)
- 22 January 1946.
Translator S. KAWASAKI.
Full Translation:
It is desired that the attitude of the Education Office on the political movements
of teaching staffs, and students, be made
clear before the general election is held.
Recently, at the Education Office's conference, it was decided that all political
movements and election campaigns except
educational movements should be free. On 21 January, the notes of vice-ministers were
issued to the principals of schools and
local governors. The political freedom which teaching staffs and students have obtained
is very extensive, including such
freedoms as the right to join political assemblies, freedom of political action is
a school (except during teaching hours),
and freedom of candidacy for teaching staffs, students, add pupils.
Accordingly, they have decided that civic education in schools should be stressed.
For instant, qualifications as members of
the Communist Party are now compatible with those qualifications of a student, but
it is prohibited for teachers to influence
their minds during teaching hours. However, free discussions concerning politics is
officially permitted both outside and
inside the school rooms. Moreover, permission for the candidacy of teaching staffs
and the creating of more than 150,000
students is an epoch making milestone.
Students' members of the House of Representatives may appear one after another. However,
in case teaching staffs of the
Government and public schools are elected, they should naturally retire from the Government
and public offices under provision
10 of new Election Law.
ITEM 2 New List of Voters In Tokyo-To Excluding Islands Drawn Up-Asahi Shimbun- 24
January I946.
Translator: Masaru Kojima.
Full Translation:
As the date of the general election will be announced early next month, the authorities
concerned are now making preparations
for taking various measures for the enlargement of polling-stations, the establishment
of temporary booths to be provided for
women's voting, and the prevention of abstention from voting by means of mobilizing
school children. The authorities published
a new list of voters on 23 January, fruit of their investigation of the number of
voters in TOKYO-To, excluding voters in the
islands and persons having qualifications to vote owing to demobilization, rehabilitation
and evacuation.
POLITICAL SERIES: 227 (Continued)
ITEM 2 According to this list, the member of voters in both the first and second electoral
districts
are, respectively, 900,444 and 1,073,240 and the total of both numbers is 1,973,240.
As compared with the number of voters in
the previous list the number in the first district shows a decrease of 21,367, and
that in the second district shows an
increase of 501,635. The reason for this phenomenon is that the population in TOKYO-To
has changed, owing to the war.
The result of comparing the number of existing voters with that of persons who have
newly acquired the right to vote is as
follows: The number of persons who had qualifications to vote, in accordance with
the old election law, on 15 September 1945,
was 830,602. The total of men 20 to 25 years of age and all female voters, who have
newly acquired the right to vote, is
1,143,082. Therefore, the: number of new voters, including younger male voters and
female voters, is 312,480 more than that of
the old voters as of 15 September 1945.
The statistics of the number of voters, depending on set distinction, has not been
made clear in the present
investigation.
Statistical Table Of Number Of Voters In TOKYO-To[illegible]
Name of Electoral District | Number of Existing Voters | Number of New votes |
KOJIMACHI | 4,451 | 7,902 |
KANDA | 7,420 | 8,868 |
NIHONBASHI | 6,929 | 7,814 |
KYOBASHI | 16,103 | 17,281 |
SHIBA | 18,543 | 22,548 |
AZABU | 5,874 | 7,383 |
AKASAKA | 2,567 | 8,018 |
YOTSUYA | 3,201 | 3,943 |
USHIGOME | 5,727 | 7,254 |
KOISHIKAWA | 11,626 | 15,281 |
HONGO | 12,422 | 17.409 |
SHITAYA | 16,903 | 19,610 |
ASAKUSA | 7,830 | 8,067 |
HONJO | 3,492 | 4,461 |
FUKAGAWA | 4,270 | 3,550 |
SHINAGAWA | 22,200 | 30,068 |
MEGURO | 30,106 | 42,077 |
AZABU | 14,253 | 17,461 |
OMORI | 40,343 | 54,549 |
KAMATA | 13,851 | 16,415 |
SETAGAYA | 48,420 | 72,881 |
SHIBUYA | 22,851 | 29,821 |
YODOBASHI | 12,811 | 15,621 |
NAKANO | 30,618 | 43,980 |
SUGINAMI | 50,307 | 74,506 |
TOSHIMA | 23,304 | 31,656 |
TAKINOGAWA | 9,451 | 12,409 |
ARAKAWA | 21,625 | 25,820 |
OJI | 25,620 | 32,330 |
ITABASHI | 20,156 | 41,952 |
NERIMA | 18,530 | 28, 414 |
ADACHI | 42,756 | 53,662 |
MUKOJIMA | 17,338 | 20,067 |
JOTO | 3,969 | 3,030 |
KATSUSHIPA | 40,476 | 54,049 |
EDOGAWA | 35,0463 | 46,688 |
HACHI-OJI | 12,,977 | 19,971 |
TACHIKAWA | 6,772 | 10.635 |
MISHI-TAMA | 27,931 | 48.688 |
MINAMI-TAMA | 26,211 | 43,381 |
KITA-TAMA | 58,821 | 93.962 |
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POLITICAL SERIES: 227 (Continued)
ITEM 3 The Japan Communist Party is becoming a Favorite of the Public-Tokyo Snimbun-24
January 1946
Translaton Shigeo One.
Summary:
The home coming of NOZAKA, veteran leader of the communist movement, has had a striking
influence on the further development
of the JAPAN Communist Party, which apparently is in the course of casting off the
old clothes of sectionalism to become a
faithful companion of the public.
In the face of the sincere efforts the Party is presently making to solve such difficulties
confronting us in our daily life
as the food problem and labor troubles, there is no denying that the people are becoming
sympathetic to the Communists. It
seems that fortune has turned in favor of the Party, after a long period of suppression
and hardship, when the termination of
war established the freedom of political opinion. Things have not turned out so smoothly,
however, as it at first
appeared.
The Chief proposal of the Communists, advocating the instant abolition of the Emperor
system, was more than the stomach of the
public could digest, being accustomed to the diet prescribed by the bureaucrat-inspired
Board of Information. Letters of
encouragement were infrequently sent to the head office, while it was not seldom that
the party members, trying to help
workers in the labor troubles were by violence out from the plants, by unbelieving
strikers.
Meanwhile, the party members themselves, it cannot be denied, have behaved in a rather
cowardly manner, remembering the menace
of the past days caused through the brutal hands of political police and the rightist
terrorists. The intellectuals, on the
other hand, fully in sympathy with the theoretical stand of the Communists, had to
confess their dissatisfaction with the
actual conduct of the Party.
Now the situation has completely changed. The opportune proposal of the Party, sponsored
by NOZAKA, regarding the early
formation of a unified front for the democratic campaign, together with the outing
of tie Party program, have done much to
gain the sympathy of the public. The head office is now swamped with over 1,000 letters
from all over the country, while
pecuniary contribution to fatten the purse of the Party are also sent ivory day in
increasing manors.
In the meantime, the number of citizens wishing to join the Party has reportedly
scared 1,000 to 2,000 a day, including wide
range of professions, such as an ex-commander of special attack corps, former employee
of the KODAMA special organ and chief
executive of the agricultural association, to say nothing of countless laborers, office
clerks, and working women. Leading
members of the Party are striving for the formation of a joint front with the Social-Democrats
to promote the autonomous
control of food, as well as for the enlarged activity of the labor unions to settle
the labor trouble in favor of the workers.
For instance, SHIGA veteran Communist, is now in the JOBN coal fields, while TOKUDA,
another leading member of the Party,
stays in the BIWAI coal fields in HOKKAIDO, where they are expected to be dedicating
themselves to the smooth solution of the
troubles. A plan to issue a new periodical called "working women' is reportedly under
way to enlighten women on political
affairs. It seems that their next aim is to gain members among the house wives.
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