Word: ikeda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have always enjoyed golf and geishas," said Ikeda. "But they are far from the life of Japan's common people, and I am now going to live like a common man." He emphasized his friendship for the U.S. (two of his daughters are currently college shopping in California), setting as his prime policy goal "restoring America's confidence in Japan...
...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...
...ticket to Tokyo had been bought by the Ikeda faction. But before he could board the plane, he was approached by a forceful hakoshi, or delegate rustler, from a rival faction, who persuaded him to swap his air ticket for a first-class train ride, "all meals paid for, and plenty of sake." But once aboard the train, the delegate fell in with a smooth-talking hakoshi of the Fujiyama faction, who persuaded him to descend for a night of pleasure in the resort town of Atami, 60 miles short of Tokyo. Before resuming the journey next day. the delegate...
...Tokyo Station, the delegate was snatched from the Fujiyama hakoshi by burly Ikeda hakoshi, who bundled him into a waiting car and drove him to a plush, Western-style hotel (the paper-thin walls of Japanese inns might leak secrets). There a double room with bath awaited him and, on a bedside table, another cake-box stuffed with yen. Under guard until convention time, the delegate was at last safely counted as kanzume (in the can) for Candidate Ikeda...
Flocking in Cadillacs to the convention hall, the candidates bargained furiously to put together a stop-Ikeda ticket. But Ikeda was backed by two banks, a shipbuilder, the Nomura Securities Co. and much of the old Mitsui industrial combine, as well as by Premier Kishi. One rival, Party Vice President Bamboku Ohno, wailed: "I have locked up in a safe Kishi's written promise to make me Japan's next Premier." .Maybe he did. But Kishi stuck with Ikeda. At the last minute. Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama tossed Ikeda a block of 49 votes that had cost...