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...ICHIRO HATOYAMA, TIME'S cover subject this week, is a man who is both symbol and agent of renascent Japan, a country beset anew with internal struggles and aspirations ten years after the war. The story is a penetrating assessment of a Japan at the crossroads. It is the story of how pride and tradition, international beckonings and bickerings, are once again bestirring the Japanese nation...
...plants and shipyards of Amagasaki one day last week, crowding and craning for a look at an old, partly paralyzed man bundled inside a black Chrysler Imperial. He did not appear, but from a loudspeaker hooked up with the car, his deep voice boomed out: "My friends, I am Ichiro Hatoyama." The crowd waited for him to continue...
Only Emperor Hirohito himself could attract such attention. With a nationwide election less than a fortnight away, 72-year-old Ichiro Hatoyama seemed to be establishing himself as the most popular politician in postwar Japan...
...Banzai, banzai, banzai," cried the members of the Japanese Diet last week as they bolted from the chamber, bound for beer and sake in their party caucus rooms. Premier Ichiro Hatoyama's government had just formally dissolved the Diet in preparation for the Feb. 27 general elections. The Premier, who is partially crippled, was wheeled up and down the corridors by his aides, beaming and shaking hands...
...Ichiro Hatoyama had good cause for elation. Last week the big Kyodo news agency polled voters and confirmed the Asahi verdict: 40.8% for Hatoyama; 18% for Taketora Ogata, successor to the fallen Shigeru Yoshida as head of the conservative Liberal Party; 14% for Mosaburo Suzuki of the left-wing (Bevanite) Socialists; 12.5% for Jotaro Kawakami of the moderate, right-wing Socialists. In all, more than 56% of the voters expected that Hatoyama would...