A deal too many: Japan. (Saitama governorship elections)

The Economist (US) | May 23, 1992 | Copyright

THAT cynical old Florentine, Niccolo Machiavelli, would have enjoyed the past week's farce surrounding the election for governor of Saitama prefecture, due to be held on June 21st. Yawara Hata, a respected 81-year-old left-winger, had been expecting to coast to a sixth four-year-term. Saitama is one of only four socialist strongholds among Japan's 47 prefectures. But last week Mr Hata unexpectedly said he was stepping down. Odder still, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party then tried to get its own man, Yoshihiko Tsuchiya, to pull out of the contest. What was happening?

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