Word: ichiro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...taken Ichiro Hatoyama a near lifetime of nimble politicking and Diet brawling, of playing along with Japan's prewar militarists and yet surviving them, of being purged by the U.S. occupiers and turning the purging to profit, of losing power and then grabbing it back. At last, at 72, he had unfurled the long-dusty banners of Japanese nationalism and marched with them to his life's goal...
...black spectacles that looked, in a certain light, as if they had been painted on by Bobby Clark's makeup man. Beneath a hesitant growth of gray mustache^ his round mouth was flattened into a broad grin. "What would you like for breakfast?" someone shouted. "More votes," grinned Ichiro...
...negotiations with the Chinese Communists and Russia; some second thoughts about rearming and lining up on the Western side of the cold war. "... I feel that alignment only with the Western nations and the ignoring of the Communist nations . . . could lead to a third world war," said Ichiro Hatoyama. "I would like to awaken the people to a deeper, more serious sense of their independence...
Leader in the Middle. For all his political canniness and his present popularity, it is by no means certain that aged, crippled Ichiro Hatoyama is the one who can do the job. He is essentially a politician, a man who made his way up by nifty deals across the go and mah-jongg tables, by tough brawling in the Diet (once he rushed to the rostrum and tried to punch a fellow Diet member in the nose), and by tacking with the winds of national sentiment. "He is not the kind of leader who stands out and looks down...
...leadership, and the public began showing its irritation with the remnants of U.S. occupation and those who cooperated with it. All that was then necessary was a shrewd deal across the game tables. Overnight last fall, a chunk of the Liberals broke off, styled themselves the Democrats, and chose Ichiro Hatoyama as their leader. Another convenient arrangement with the Yoshida-hating Socialists knocked the Premier out and brought Hatoyama...