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...Sato is liked by business executives," observed a Tokyo industrialist. "Kono is liked by barbers and taxi drivers." Both men - Eisaku Sato, 63, and Ichiro Kono, 66 - are even more warmly admired by rival factions of the ruling Conservative-Liberal Party. Last week they became hot rivals in a power struggle for the premiership of Japan. Their opportunity came when Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, who has been hospitalized for eight weeks with a throat tumor, handed in his resignation...
...city planning have failed in the discussion stage. Twice in its history-after the 1923 earthquake that took 100,000 lives and leveled half the city, and after World War II when it lay again in ruins-Tokyo had a chance to rebuild itself into a cohesive metropolis. Indeed, Ichiro Kono, the stocky, 66-year-old State Minister in charge of the Olympics and the man who is largely responsible for Tokyo's face lifting, blames General Douglas MacArthur and the U.S. occupation for the latter-day failure...
...under his brother's Administration. The Japanese, accustomed to patriarchs in public life, marveled at his youth. Said a Japanese Supreme Court justice after meeting Bobby: "He must have worked and studied hard to achieve such a pace in promotion." At the Diet, Lower House Speaker Ichiro Kiyose, 77, and Upper House President Tsuruhei Matsuno, 78, watched Kennedy and sighed wistfully. "The days are here," said Matsuno. "for the younger generation to take over." Bobby gracefully deferred to age: "We gain by referring to the wisdom of experience...
...Watanabe is the son of a Finnish mother and a Japanese father who became a Lutheran clergyman. A child prodigy on the violin, he studied conducting at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music. Unabashedly trading on the influence of his father-in-law, Japan's then Premier Ichiro Hatoyama, Watanabe founded the Japan Philharmonic in 1956, staffed it with young Japanese musicians and one American, Concertmaster Broadus Erie, founder of Manhattan's New Music String...
Half a Rifle. On the evening of last May 19, when the lower house of the Diet was scheduled to consider the Security Treaty, its Socialist minority sought to prevent the session by barricading Speaker Ichiro Kiyose in his office. When Kiyose called in 500 cops to break the blockade, the Socialists walked out of the session entirely. At that, Nobusuke Kishi-a man with an un-Japanese addiction to direct action-persuaded his Liberal-Democratic majority to pass the treaty then and there...