Labels:text | newspaper | human face | man | person | news | suit | clothing | publication | font OCR: INSIGHT A Yen for Politics By HANS KATAYAMA Kanemaru Shin public prosecutors could only shrug: Kanemaru made and unmade was a free man. Although disgusted with the Jus- prime ministers. tice Ministry's wrist slapping of corrupt politicians, the nation turned back to the more pressing busi- But then, say ness of jump-starting the flagging economy. police, he took the Then the bombshell. leap from greedy March 6 was supposed to be just another Satur- political fund- day for Kanemaru. He had been at his three-storey house in Tokyo's tiny Moto-Azabu district, whiling raiser to thief ... away his retirement from the Diet, the Japanese parliament. T he maelstrom of public outrage, it seem- True, the Tokyo Public Prosecutor's Office had ed, was spent. As 1992 ended, Kane- called; they wanted to see him that afternoon. But maru Shin, kingpin of Japan's ruling Lib- he wasn't going to be interrogated-after all, they eral Democratic Party (LDP), was fined had asked to meet in a hotel lobby near his office US$1,567 for illegally accepting US$3.4 in Nagatacho. million from Sagawa Kyubin Co, a parcel-delivery As Kanemaru headed forthe meeting with cane business. in hand, he told an aide, "Tape the Hitachi-Unitika The fine was less than that for speeding, but game for me."Women's volleyball, especially the
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