Word: hayato
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buck a trend, Japan's electioneering politicians have unanimously jumped on the Kennedy bandwagon. The week of Kennedy's victory, Japan's incumbent Premier Hayato Ikeda staged a TV debate, frankly modeled on the Nixon-Kennedy debates, with his two opponents. Socialist Saburo Eda and Democratic Socialist Suehiro Nishio. Convinced that it was the New Frontier that had won for Kennedy. Ikeda promised: "My Liberal-Democratic Party will have precisely such a New Frontier program in Japan." In response. Socialist Eda insisted that it was he, not Ikeda, who was just like Kennedy -"flexible and progressive...
...Socialists have tried to make Yamaguchi one of the top issues in the current Japanese election campaign. They called him a "cat's paw of monopolistic capitalist forces" (by which they meant Premier Hayato Ikeda's ruling Liberal Democrats) and paraded Asanuma's widow about in hope of a sympathy vote. After Yamaguchi's hanged body was found, Saburo Eda, acting chairman of the Socialists, shifted his ground and growled: "The fact that an important criminal was able to commit suicide exposes the utter irresponsibility of the authorities in charge...
Death was a television spectacle of horror in Japan last week. Before TV cameras, nearly all Japan's top politicians were gathered together on the same platform in Tokyo's Hibiya Hall. There was conservative Premier Hayato Ikeda, Democratic Socialist Leader Suehiro Nishio and Socialist Party Chairman Inejiro Asanuma. They were there to debate the issues with each other publicly, to open the general campaigning for next month's elections...
When 60-year-old Economist Hayato Ikeda succeeded hapless Nobusuke Kishi as Premier of Japan three weeks ago, a hopeful gleam lit up Peking's eyes. Though Ikeda, of course, was avowedly pro-American, he had once expressed enthusiasm for a revival of Japanese trade with China. Peking thought a little buttering up might...
...Cake. Even the choice of his successor brought untidy dispute. From all over Japan, Liberal Democratic delegates convened in Tokyo to pick a new party president, who would automatically become the party's nominee for Premier. Kishi's choice was Trade Minister Hayato Ikeda. But ability or ideology had little to do with the battle. As is their custom, big Japanese business firms, hoping for future friendly treatment in such matters as import licenses, taxes and government contracts, backed one or another of the eight party factions to the tune of $4,000,000. By common consent...