Word: hayato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crutches Aside. Gradually, cautiously, painfully, the President began working himself away from his crutches. For a White House luncheon with former President Dwight Eisenhower and Japan's Premier Hayato Ikeda (see Foreign Relations), Kennedy put the crutches aside, walked around with his guests in his old hands-in-the-pocket manner. When the President took Ikeda for a short Potomac cruise on the presidential yacht, Honey Fitz,* Kennedy hobbled up the gangplank without crutches...
There is nothing particularly wrong with U.S.-Japanese relations these days. Thus there was nothing urgent about last week's visit to Washington of Japan's brusque, imperturbable Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda. He came to the U.S. mostly to score points at home, where, as is often the case with Japanese Prime Ministers, he is not very popular...
This time the issue was Premier Hayato Ikeda's political-violence prevention bill, designed to prevent the kind of mob violence that last year forced Ikeda's predecessor, Premier Nobusuke Kishi, to cancel a projected visit from former President Dwight Eisenhower and, subsequently, brought Kishi's own resignation. Ironically, the bill was first urged on the government by the Socialists themselves, who took alarm when Socialist Party Chairman Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated by a fanatic right-wing student...
...recent months the pressure has been stepped up, and Japan has shown a new and disconcerting willingness to listen. The Red Chinese, in particular, have spared no efforts. Last week a Red Chinese trade-union delegation beat its way up and down Japan, loudly demanding that Premier Hayato Ikeda "suspend his hostility" toward Red China. And a delegation of 16 top Japanese businessmen flew off to Peking on an economic good-will mission. "World thinking is rapidly shifting," said Managing Director Heigo Fuji of Yawata Steel, Japan's biggest steelmakers. "Japan, too, must take positive steps by actively supporting...
...Then, as if determined to swing the sympathies of Japan's emotional voters behind the opposition Socialists, a right-wing fanatic assassinated Socialist Party Boss Inejiro Asanuma. But last week, when election workers finished counting up nearly 40 million ballots, elated Liberal-Democratic Premier Hayato Ikeda carefully began to ink in the eyes of a papier-maché daruma doll-a duty prescribed by Japanese custom for a man who has attained a cherished goal...