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Ikeda's political power grew rapidly after he came to know Araki Kondo, often called Japan's biggest moneylender, whose private fortune tops 20 million. In 1957 Ikeda's oldest daughter married Kondo's oldest son. Through Kondo, Ikeda came to know many of Japan's top businessmen, who admired not only his administrative ability but ,.also the $280 million tax cut he pushed through while
With a rip-roaring locomotive that dumfounded onlookers and customs men, the greying junketeers began their reunion with a rousing "Tiger, tiger, tiger, sis-boom-bah!" Then, starting out in Tokyo (where they lunched with onetime Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. Eikichi Araki, a Princeton graduate school student in 1923), the visitors set out to see Japan. Amidst a profusion of potent Japanese beer, sake, bourbon, Scotch and all manner of native dishes, they saw Fujiyama mantled in unseasonable snow, famed shrines and spas, one geisha dance so laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies...
...Asia Story (Sun. noon, CBS). Speaker: Japan's Ambassador Eikichi Araki...
...school Japanese, Araki is so polite that he finds it almost impossible to finish 18 holes of golf in a day because he keeps asking others to pass him. He wears a kimono at home and prefers to sleep on a straw mat on the floor. To cook for him and act as his official hostess (he is a widower), the new ambassador brought along his 20-year-old daughter Tomiko, a shy, pretty girl who speaks little English, prefers Western dress. Tomiko is due for some surprises: she prepared herself for her trip to the U.S. by plowing determinedly...
...convicted war criminal General Sadao Araki, who directed Japan's 1931 conquest of Manchuria, served in 1938-39 as Japan's Minister of Education...