Word: banzais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rancor of the press hardly reflects the feelings of the voters of Japan. At week's end, when Kishi's plane touched down at Tokyo airport, 12,000 supporters (each provided with a free lunch box of beancake and rice) braved an icy, knifelike wind to cry "Banzai!" Although police had been massed to hold off student demonstrators who had rioted at Kishi's departure, the students did not show up for his return. The newspapers continued their grumbling about Kishi, the U.S. treaty and the coming "ruin" of Japan. But, said Kishi philosophically, "Japanese have...