The Saito Cabinet was formed in May 1982, after former Premier Tsuyoshi Inukai was assassinated by a group of Fascist Army and Navy ofigers in the notorious May 13 incident, Four Ministers have resigned during the past two years, those quit. ting the Government being. Count Yasuya Uchida, Foreign Minist General Sadao Araki, War Minister: Baron Kumakichi Nakajima, Minister of Commerce and Industry and Mr. Tehiro Hatoyama, Minister of Education, Count Uchida and General Araki, Japan's outstanding Fascist lead were succeeded by Mr. Koki Hirota and General Senjuro Hayashi, respectively, early in 1994, their resignations being due to ill health. General Hayashi also has submitted—his resignation once, following the sentencing of his brother to. prison after conviction of taking part in the Tokyo municipal government graft ring, but the resignation was rejected by the Emperor.
Baron Nakajima was' forced to quit his post in the Saito Cabinet because of public furore over an essay which he had written for a magazine ten years before, praising rakauji Ashikaga," who, several hundred years ago, betrayed the Imperial Family. He was succeeded by Mr. Joji Matsumoto, also a member of the House of Peers.
The last Cabinet Minister to sure render his post under Premier Saito was Mr. Hatoyama, who was charged by Mr. Kazumi Okamoto, a member of the House of Representatives, with having accepted a bribe of 50,000, which subsequently was not substantiated—United Press.
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