Trial Ending as Prosecutor Asks Stiffs Penalties Tokyo, Aug. 11.
One of the most sensational bri-ory cases in Japan's modern history neared conclusion here to-day, ox the publi procurator demanded sentences ranging from six to 24 months for the fifteen defendants in the so-called Teikoku Rayon Com-any case in which the defendants Include two former Cabinet Minisfers, a Vice-Minister, and high Treasury and bank officials.
The three leading defendants were Baron Kumakieht Nakajima, Minister of Commerce and Industry at the ime of the scandal, who {aces a year's" imprisonment "with hard ubout; Mr, Chuzo Mitsuchi, former Minister of Railways, facing a six-Routh jail term, and Mr. Hideo Kuroda," former Vice-Minister, of Finance and the leading figure of the £08 whom the procurator de sentence of two years' im-Prisonment with hard labour, Other defendants who face a two-year term are Mr. Shigeru Shimada, former President of the Bank of Taiwan, and Mr. Mamoru Nagano, the then auditor of the 'Teikoku Rayon Company. Another Teikolat enditer, 'Mr. Ryosel Kawai, may be fiven fourteen months in jail with hard labour, A one-year sentence was demanded for Mr. Naokicht 'Yanagida, the then Director of. the Bank of' Taiwan, and eight-month terms for Mr. Ryuta Ohno and Mr. Iwao Aita, respectively Chief of the Special Banking Section and Bank Inspector of the Bank Bureau of the Finance Ministry.
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