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Tokio, Aug. 12.
Never has official business, of an important nature, been more quick-conduced in Japan than when Viscount Kato, the premier, with his colleagues in the Coalition Cabinet which he organized last, year, and was, within the space of A couple of days, commissioned form another Cabinet, a task he immediately accepted.
'The Coalition Cabinet' was formed after the fall of the Kujonra Ministry which was subjected volley after volley of censure from press_and platform on the ground that it was a "Cabinet of the pri-Vileged classes." When it took dffie, it declared that it would only Temain in power until the wedding of the Prince Regent had been cele-Drated. This promise it kept, ard when it resigned, a coalition of the Kenseikai party, of which Viscount Kato (the present premier) is the read, and of the Seiyukai took charge of the ship of State. For more than a decade, the Seiyukai had been the leading' political party in Japan, and, during the latter part of the late Premier Har Tite, it was virtually the governing body in the land, if the Genro (th Elder Statesmen, who are the real power behind the Throne) be ex: Copted. After the death of Premier Hara, the party soon began to disintegrate, till a soliis a in it ranks last year sent it quickly! Gown to second position numericatly, the Kenseikai becoming the strongest party.
The Seiyukai however, strove hard to regain numerical superiority and with it, power. The al-Tiance it formed with the Kenseikei was far from sincere, and the life of the Coalition Ministry was one of constant hireling ant hagrling. 'A trial of strength was inevitable, and when the Seiyukai took exception to the tax adjustment plan put forward by the Kenseikai, Premier Kato immediately demanded the resignation of the obstructing members of his Cabinet, at the same! time tendering his own resignation' and that of the other Kenseikai Ministers.
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