Tokyo, May 20.
Mr. Fusanosuke Kuhara, Japanese copper millionaire, today was elected president of the Seiyukai Party, which possesses the second largest number of members in the House of Representatives.
The election was held at a party convention here to obtain a successor io Dr. Kisaburo Suzuki, whose term of office expired today Mr. Kuhara served as Minister of Communications in the Cabinet of the late Gen. Baron Giichi Tanaka in 1927. Generally regarded as the "centaur of the political world," he was acquitted on May 6, 1938, of complicity "in the military rebellion of February 26, 1986.
After being cleared of these charges, it was generally anticipated that Mo Kuhara would assume an important political post.
He was chosen by Dr. Suzuki as his successor at the head of the Seiyukai on May 13.
Mr, Chikuhei Nakajuma, Japan's "aeroplane ' king," contested the nomination of Mr. Kuhara—Domei,
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