Word: aiichiro
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...ritual, Akihito's betrothal was hailed in Japan as the imperial family's greatest leap toward democracy since Hirohito threw off the myth of imperial divinity in 1946. Not only was the engagement "a triumph of youth and love." said Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama, it had "shattered court conventions." "The prince," said the Japan Times, "has set a seal on the democratization of Japan." For Akihito. who has long rebelled against living behind a "chrysanthemum curtain," there will be other seals to set. When he was only three, he was, as tradition decreed, taken away from his parents...
...second five-year plan, threatened with strangulation by an acute shortage of foreign exchange. By week's end Desai had got the promise of i) $100 million in U.S. loans, and 2) $200 million in U.S. farm surpluses to be paid for in rupees. ¶ Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama was worried by the prospect that his country might be dragged involuntarily into a war between the U.S. and Red China. From Dulles, Fujiyama got assurances that the U.S. was ready to revise its 1951 mutual-security treaty, but failed to get what he really wanted: a Japanese veto...
Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama announced that during his imminent visit to the U.S. he would try to win some degree of control over Far East operations of U.S. forces based in Japan. Snapped India's Nehru: "There is no doubt these islands will have to go to China, and this fact should be recognized and acted upon peacefully." The British government, moved by its fisheries "war" with Iceland (see below) to take a stern stand against Peking's new claim to a twelve-mile limit, publicly announced that it "fully shared" U.S. concern over events...
...Obeying a voice from Heaven," he had so drastically overhauled his Cabinet that, with the exception of Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama, every member was new. The most surprising appointment was that of his own brother, Eisaku Sato, as Finance Minister...
...week's end signs were that Peking had overplayed its hand and overindulged its mouth. With elaborate unconcern, Japanese Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama predicted that the Chinese Reds would eventually "calm down" and trade with Japan anyway. And as he headed out into the rain for his annual cherryblossom-viewing party, Nobusuke Kishi ostentatiously shared his umbrella with Nationalist China's beaming Ambassador Shen Chin-ting...