Word: asanuma
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...strong enough to prevent his fiery young lieutenants from trying to expand Yamaguchi-gumi power into territories held by rival yakuza. As the suspected aggressors in the internecine gangland warfare, Tao-ka's organization has been selected by police as their primary target in the cleanup. Says Seitaro Asanuma, director general of the National Police Agency: "Not until Yamaguchi-gumi is smashed to pieces will the nation accept the sincerity of our police organization...
...last year forced Ikeda's predecessor, Premier Nobusuke Kishi, to cancel a projected visit from former President Dwight Eisenhower and, subsequently, brought Kishi's own resignation. Ironically, the bill was first urged on the government by the Socialists themselves, who took alarm when Socialist Party Chairman Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated by a fanatic right-wing student...
...riots against the U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty that five months ago toppled former Premier Nobusuke Kishi (TIME, May 9 et seq.). Then, as if determined to swing the sympathies of Japan's emotional voters behind the opposition Socialists, a right-wing fanatic assassinated Socialist Party Boss Inejiro Asanuma. But last week, when election workers finished counting up nearly 40 million ballots, elated Liberal-Democratic Premier Hayato Ikeda carefully began to ink in the eyes of a papier-maché daruma doll-a duty prescribed by Japanese custom for a man who has attained a cherished goal...
...thousand years for His Imperial Majesty, the Emperor!'' Then Otoya Yamaguchi, 17, tore his bed sheet into strips, knotted them into a rope, stood up on a toilet bowl and hanged himself from the light fixture in the ceiling. Yamaguchi, who last month stabbed Socialist Chairman Inejiro Asanuma to death at a political rally, had lived his bloody samurai tradition to the end. His suicide was an act of owabi-apology to those inconvenienced by his murder of Asanuma...
...Socialists have tried to make Yamaguchi one of the top issues in the current Japanese election campaign. They called him a "cat's paw of monopolistic capitalist forces" (by which they meant Premier Hayato Ikeda's ruling Liberal Democrats) and paraded Asanuma's widow about in hope of a sympathy vote. After Yamaguchi's hanged body was found, Saburo Eda, acting chairman of the Socialists, shifted his ground and growled: "The fact that an important criminal was able to commit suicide exposes the utter irresponsibility of the authorities in charge...