Word: asanuma
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...plea, "Let us then you would understand," was silenced rude interruption, "No use to talk." time, the Japanese parliamentary steadily deteriorated into an ornamental which simply bestowed approval on the of the Imperial cabinets. Occasionally, , hesitant yet tenacious voices of dissent courageous few made themselves heard. them was Inejiro Asanuma, who was by an eighteen-year old fanatic last...
...Socialist Parties must now stand together against their common foes reported demand by the Socialists the premier resign impresses us realistic and utterly dangerous. question is not one of right It is a matter of confidence in the process of government versus with the parliamentary procedure this sense, Asanuma should not be a martyr of the Socialist cause. he is a martyr of the constitutional of democracy in Japan. Before comfortable silence might again vail under the tyranny of the left right, those who have once learn a lesson of such a tyranny should forth and dedicate themselves arduous task...
Inejiro Ascmuma, 63, chairman of the Socialist Party. A gravel-voiced orator as round as he is tall (weight: 225 Ibs.), Asanuma is admiringly called "the man locomotive." Thick-headed as well as hamhanded, Asanuma graduated from W'aseda University and promptly became a labor agitator. When a minority group of moderates bolted the party last November because of disgust with the Socialist leadership's parroting of the Communist line, Asanuma was elected chairman of the remainder. Before the split, the Socialists polled a total of 13 million votes, v. 23 million for Kishi's Democratic Liberals...
...indefatigable speechmaker of the shirt-sleeve-and-galluses school, Asanuma seems seriously to believe that Japan is a U.S. colony. When he is with his friends, Asanuma bursts into violent denunciations of U.S. imperialism as the "common enemy" of Japan and Red China. But with Americans he sweatily protests he is not anti-U.S. The growing violence in the streets and the cancellation of Eisenhower's visit appear to Asanuma as an augury of total victory. He boasts...
...demonstrations had been more anti-Kishi than anti-security pact, and at week's end there were signs that the public was getting tired of the Socialist demonstrators. Independent newspapers, sharply hostile to the government earlier in the week, were critical of Asanuma's antics at the embassy. Snorted Asahi: "Asanuma behaved like Nikita Khrushchev." When word arrived from Washington that President Eisenhower was still determined to go through with the visit to Tokyo so long as Japan's invitation still stood, the Premier sent reassurances that "the greater part of the Japanese people will welcome Eisenhower...