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- <text id=89TT1579>
- <title>
- June 19, 1989: World Notes:Japan
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 19, 1989 Revolt Against Communism
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- WORLD, Page 41
- World Notes
- JAPAN
- Tattling on Mr. Clean
- </hdr><body>
- <p> One reason Sousuke Uno got the Prime Minister's job in the
- wake of the Recruit influence-peddling scandal was that he was
- widely regarded as Mr. Clean. Last week that reputation was
- impugned from an unexpected quarter: a former geisha who claimed
- to have been his lover. SCOOP: A SCANDAL INVOLVING PRIME
- MINISTER UNO, shrieked a headline in the weekly magazine Sunday
- Mainichi. In an interview, the 40-year-old, otherwise
- unidentified former geisha said Uno paid her about $21,000
- during a five-month affair that began in October 1985. She
- portrayed Uno as bullying and self-aggrandizing.
- </p>
- <p> Traditionally, a public servant's private life is ignored
- in Japan, but the Sunday Mainichi's editor in chief, Shuntaro
- Torigoe, argued that "the time has come to question Japanese
- politicians' illicit relations with women." Questioned by
- legislators, Uno said, "I'd rather refrain from commenting on
- such matters in public."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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