Mainichi :: Monday, July 27, 2009

• Declassified CIA documents reveal plan to elect U.S. sympathizer as PM following occupation
  A declassified U.S. document has shown that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) attempted to make key conservative politician Taketora Ogata Japan's prime minister in the 1950s, in a bid to place the nation under U.S. control. continued ...


• 70 percent of second-generation Lower House candidates running for LDP
  Nearly 70 percent of the 171 second-generation political family candidates in the upcoming House of Representatives election will run on a ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ticket, a Mainichi Shimbun survey has found. continued ...


• Transport official canvassed bus companies to put forward employees as LDP members
  A manager at the Tokyo Bus Association, a public service corporation under the jurisdiction of the Kanto District Transport Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, has been calling on employees of association member companies to join the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), it's been discovered. continued ...