Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kishi, after the 1960 Japan-U.S. Security Treaty was signed. No such luck, for this time the Japanese public simply was not responding to the leftists' highly indignant cries. For one thing, it was all too obvious that the treaty with Korea, which restores relations between the Asian neighbors for the first time since World War II, has no military clauses. Moreover, the conditions for street savagery that prevailed in 1960 have been dulled by a steadily improving economy...
...call attention to the substantial-and growing-opposition in Japan to the Viet Nam war. The giant Sohyo labor union claims to have garnered 8,000,000 signatures already on an antiwar petition. Polls show that 75% of the Japanese public opposes the bombing of North Viet Nam. "Asian problems should be solved by Asians," wrote Editorialist Shizuo Maruyama in the Japan Quarterly. Last week a group of 30 Japanese intellectuals took a full-page ad in the New York Times protesting...
Nonetheless, the Chinese made some sales. Visitors were impressed by low-cost, simple-to-operate lathes, printing presses and weaving looms, and representatives of African and Asian nations placed substantial orders. Japanese businessmen were the biggest buyers, ordered $10 million worth of pig iron and iron ore and large quantities of soybeans and maize. Typically, though, they took home more money than they left behind, made deals to sell the Red Chinese $100 million worth of steel plate, stainless-steel tubing and heavy truck axles. In Peking this week, France will take its turn at supplying Red China...
...India-Pakistan. these two nations of the Asian subcontinent are "likely bets" for economic growth except "beastly old Kashmir keeps cropping up." Real progress could be made when that dispute is settled...
...Beyond Anti-Colonialism. The erosion of Afro-Asian solidarity is best indicated at the United Nations, where bloc conferences-once the gaudiest of attractions in the General Assembly-are now infrequent. "You can still get what amounts to a bloc vote, on issues like Angola and South Africa," says...