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Orchestrating the demonstrations was Socialist Party Secretary-General Inejiro Asanuma, the burly former union organizer who has been chummy with the Chinese Communists ever since his Peking trip last year. Backed by three loudspeaker trucks and hundreds of followers, he strode up to the U.S. embassy and handed Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II a truculent letter. It declared that President Eisenhower's impending visit to Japan, scheduled for June 19, "will only provoke the Japanese people, already infuriated by the passing of the security pact." Mac-Arthur retorted with a demand that Asa numa retract his widely ballyhooed statements that...
...Next day Asanuma showed up on TV to cry for the Premier's resignation. At his side sat Nobusuke Kishi, coldly angry. "Why should I dissolve the Diet and hold elections because of a small minority demonstrating in the streets of Tokyo?" he declared. "There have been three elections since I became Premier, and my government has won a majority in all of them. Therefore, I believe I have a mandate from the people...
...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...