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Among the worshipers at Ise, in striped trousers and cutaway, was Japan's new Premier Ichiro Hatoyama, full of the knowledge that his nationalist pronouncements had done much to stimulate Japan's search for its old look. Hatoyama is the first Prime Minister to make the pilgrimage since the Japanese surrender; he did so in defiance of Article 20 of the MacArthur constitution, which lays down that "the state and its organs shall refrain from . . . religious activity." And although Hatoyama himself is a Christian, fond of caroling hymns like The Old Rugged Cross, he solemnly reported his appointment...
Japan's new nationalist Premier Ichiro Hatoyama apparently hopes to win friends for the March elections by working both sides of the Cold War street -and the alleys as well. He talked rearmament to please right-wing Japanese inter ests and the U.S. He talked recognition of Red China to please the left. Hatoyama himself seemed to believe that the U.S. should welcome improved relations between Japan and Red China as a means of reducing his country's "anti-American feeling." Hatoyama was talking more and more last week like a man who found it profitable to belabor...
Last week Japan's new nationalist Premier, Ichiro Hatoyama, announced that his first move to correct occupation-made law would be to scrap Article 9 of the constitution, "because this Article is open to misinterpretation and leads to much unnecessary confusion...
...tongued diplomacy," cried a supporter of ex-Premier Yoshida. "To the world, Shigemitsu professes antiCommunism. At home, he talks of coexistence." Shigemitsu denied the taunt, but the opposition catcalled "Liar! Liar!" Finally, Premier Hatoyama had to put himself once more on record, this time more guardedly: "On whether I intend to recognize Red China or not, I would like to point out that there are many factors involved, and I cannot say when...
...Hatoyama and Shigemitsu are conservatives of long anti-Communist record. But they came to power in a curious alliance with the Socialists (TIME, Dec. 20); they are not averse to playing to an increasingly neutralist public opinion, and they are supported by business interests eager to increase trade with Red China. All week long Japanese officials paid studied calls upon U.S. friends to reassure them that full cooperation with the U.S. remains the "immutable foundation" of Japanese policy. The fact is, however, that Russia would pay much for Japanese recognition of Red China, and for the major discord among...