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...years ago when he became Premier of Japan, aging, partially paralyzed Ichiro Hatoyama declared: "My health will not permit me to remain very long as Prime Minister." Last week, still ailing and still talking of retirement, the 73-year-old Premier launched a desperate grandstand play to prolong his political life. He will go to Moscow, he announced, to seek what two other Japanese missions have failed to get-a peace settlement with Russia...
Aware that Japan is impatient for a settlement, Shigemitsu is fearful that before the talks end he may have to agree to an Adenauer formula, i.e., resuming normal diplomatic relations without gaining any major concessions. Premier Hatoyama is so confident of some sort of settlement that he has already set in motion a merging of government security agencies in expectation of an upsurge in Soviet propaganda and espionage when the Russians return to Tokyo in force...
...Finance Minister in Japan's third postwar Cabinet, pudgy, iron-willed Tanzan Ishibashi feuded frequently with General Douglas MacArthur and was purged from office in 1947. Last week, as the strong-minded Minister of International Trade and Industry in the indecisive administration of Ichiro Hatoyama, Ishibashi once again crossed swords with the U.S. In the Oriental Economist, a magazine he has owned since 1939, Ishibashi made the first official announcement that Japan will press for increased "economic and cultural exchanges" with Red China...
...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...
Resisting the Present. Some 70 delegations of prostitutes met recently in an old wrestling arena to establish a protective union, which they called "The Federation of All Japan Special Eating and Drinking Establishments Working Girls' Unions." To the embarrassment of Premier Hatoyama's Liberal-Democratic Party, Japan's brothel owners, operating as "The National Venereal Disease Prevention Autonomous Association," showered the city's bars and bordellos with handbills urging pimps and prostitutes to join the government party en masse, to protect their legislative interests from within...