Japanese go to polls in first free election

Political campaign street wall posters, Japanese people looking at them / left wing people gathering in Hibiya Park to listen to speakers / crowd breaks into an angry protest with chants, then marches to Premier's home / protest signs / police clashing with demonstrators in front of Premier's gates / military police restore order / Premiere Baron Shidehara meets with leftist representatives and then resigns / Communist leader, Kyuichi Tokuda denounces the Premiere in an open meeting / long lines of voters*waiting to vote, including many women / ballots are distributed and marked in booths, dropped into ballot box / people bring children with them to the polls / ballots are counted for the election results, locks are opened on ballet boxes / Conservatives win most seats, Social Democrats, next / people in street*waiting for election results / Shigeru Yoshiba's Liberal Party won the first Japanese general election in which women vote. Japanese go to polls in first free election on April 10, 1946 in Tokyo, Japan