demand for abrogation of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty and conversion of the embryonic Japanese imperialist army, the so-called "Self-Defense Forces" into a national construction corps. If elected, the Socialists promise to compel the U.S. “to withdraw its troops from Japan, Okinawa and the Bonin Islands.
Japan's key industries such as pankine , insurance, energy ~ and the airlines industries will be completely nationalized -- but with | "fair compensation" to individual owners.
_ The steel, sugar , fertilizer, agricultural, chemical, “feed: and ‘pharmaceutical industries will be placed under government. control but ownership will remain in private hands.
Trade in foods, sugar, feed, raw cotton, wool, lumber and oil will be placed under government control to stabilize prices and assure steady supplies.
In the Diet, the lower house of parliament, Tomomi Narita, secretary general of the Japan Socialist party, challenged the | government January 31 for supporting the U.S. in the Vietnamese | war. He demanded the withdrawal of U.S. troops from south Vietnan as a precondition for settling the conflict.
Prime Minister Eisaku Sato made a weak defense, claiming that U.S. troops were in Vietnam at the express request of the. government in south Vietnam. .
Narita accused the prime minister of merely echoing the false peace bids of the U.S. in the Vietnam dispute.