* * * * A General Election took place in
Japan last week and the results were known here on Saturday. The Minis- terial Party, on which Mr. Tanaka's Government relies, has a majority of seven over the Liberal opposition. The other parties, the Independent, Labour, Business men and Shinsei Club, have thirty-one members who are more likely on the whole to increase the Government's majorities in the Diet than to decrease them. Mr, Tanaka has, however, plenty of experience of governing without what we should call a working majority, for he has not had one since his Party took office after the banking crisis early in last year. He has merely avoided, so far as possible, meeting the Diet. This was the first election held since the franchise was enormously extended by the Act of 1915. * *
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