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Last spring, Social Democrat Katayama had traded away most of his socialist principles to win the support of conservatives for his coalition. However, Shigeru Yoshida, ultra-conservative Liberal party leader, pulled out. Hitoshi Ashida, head of the conservative Democrats, gave only grudging cooperation, pushed easygoing Katayama along an economic path more conservative than socialist. Within his own party, Katayama steadily lost support...
...tight little islands. But last week, when an occupation official asked, in curiosity, whether a Japanese government might encourage birth control in future, he got a stout no. The reason showed how little some Japanese had changed. Explained former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Katsuo Okazaki (while Foreign Minister Hitoshi Ashida nodded in solemn agreement): "Because with birth control, in 20 years we would not have enough young...
...newspapers slanting their editorial policy for the gang are the Nichi Nichi and the Kokumin, the latter edited by a Johns Hopkins University graduate, Hitoshi Tanaka. I've known him a decade. The entire crowd started early in the formation of a now famous Tanaka memorial which proclaimed Japan's destiny in Asia; a total political, economic and military hegemony of the Far East...
...Finish! Finish!" Dramatically, two days later, the Tokyo government was interpellated on Count Uchida's speech by Deputy Hitoshi Ashida. a seasoned diplomat and often spokesman on foreign affairs for the Seiyukai Party, largest in the Diet...