Tt Is quite certain that the Cabinet vill not be able to weather another session of the Diet. In the past, he Government intimidated the:
Opposition by threatening tu cis-ive the Diet. "This Is no longer! eusible, for the Opposition, aware have tired' of the solution in the absolute certainty hut the result of another general ection will be disadvantageous to the Government party.
The Seiyukai party, itself, is be-leved to be fully aware of the posi-on. According to the vernacular press, the Ministry, "realizing that is doomed," is seeking ways and neons for bolstering up its position. One plun is to orgunive a stop-gap Ministry—a super-party Ministry as t 18 called hore—rather than trans-power to the legitimate ion, The pavers declare that, it sultible arrangements can be made for! hhis stop-zap Ministry, the Governnent will step out of power to-narrow. Even in the Government, rorty ranks, there is considerable dissension. Certain Seiyukai Jers have threatened to secede and we given as their reason that their ity to their party comes before loyalty to General Tanaka, and if the latter continues a yead of the party, he is bound to ome to grief, Two names are icing openly mentioned for the post Premier of the proposed stop-rap Minister of War and a close rrisnd of Baron Tanaka; the other 8 Baron Hiranuma, vice-president if the Privy Council and a reaetionity politician of the old school, been a great contributing factor in the increase of suicide, according to reports issued by the' Metropolitan, Police. The increase of unemployment_ has become much greater sineo"womeh, instead of staying in the home as formerly, are entering various professions _hitherto monopolized by men. In the resultant economic competition, say the Police, the male generally gets worsted, as most employers, when they have to choose between a. man and a woman who are both equally able to the work, prefer a woman, chiefly because of the latter's natural cheerfulness and because she is cheaper.
Police statistics ascribe 30 per cent. of male suicide Inst to economic pressure. Investigations also show that the number of females who commit suicide under the age of 20 ix far larger than the number of males, and this is explained by the fact that women mature earlier and, at an age when! men are rather indifferent, to women prefer death to a life of hardship.
Another strange suicide trait in Japan is that more men take their lives during the summer mont tis, while there is a proportionate increase in the number of women who seek death in the winter.
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