Word: asanuma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China and the Soviet Union. When the votes were in, Premier Kishi had won a clear victory, capturing 71 of the contested seats to 38 for the Socialists. The Socialists lost nearly a million votes-the first such fall-off in ten years. At party headquarters, Secretary-General Asanuma said glumly: "This calls for serious reflection by all Socialist leaders...
...Before the war," said Wellesley graduate Tamaki Vemura, director of Japan's Y.W.C.A., "I was once arrested and questioned seven hours because I had said in church, 'We are all sinners.'" Socialist Secretary-General Inajiro Asanuma told of how he would be arrested, questioned and then released at one station, only to be picked up and questioned again at another. Such memories were apparently a good deal more painful than the current lawlessness. With the sole exception of the English-language Japan Times, not a single major newspaper rallied to Kishi's side...
Finger Exercise. In Tokyo, Detective Toshio Asanuma, whose special assignment was to prevent purse snatching on commuter trains, was arrested for snatching a purse on a crowded commuter train...
...Socialists played on the divisions and infirmities in the regime of eccentric Premier Ichiro Hatoyama. They also made hay with increasing Japanese sentiment against rearmament. To have a bigger force than today's token army, argued Socialist Secretary Inejiro Asanuma, would require U.S. aid and "U.S. control of Japanese affairs," and would "attract the hostility of Japan's neighbors." The U.S. did not help at all by letting it be known that it was greatly increasing its military aid to Japan, possibly by as much as 13 times, or by releasing a report on its land-requisitioning...
...under the name of Mojin (growing person), a pacifist who did 2½ years' time in imperial jails during World War II, a longtime inhabitant of the marshy Marxist terrain between Socialism and Communism. For their part, the right-wingers installed as party secretary general their boss, Inejiro Asanuma, a big-chested, big-voiced union man who has a background of antiCommunism. He is a stronger, more forceful type than Party Chairman Suzuki. The reunited party's line: preservation of the MacArthur Constitution (which outlaws war), nationalization of some industries (e.g., coal, electric power), diplomatic relations with...