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...government officials to tour the U.S., actively seeking, and signing orders for, more imports. Last week the mission fanned out from San Francisco to a score of cities to talk up a new liberalism in trade. In a flight of wish-it-were-true hyperbole, Delegation Chief Yoshizo Ikeda, president of Mitsui, the giant trading company, told a gathering in Atlanta that his country is "removing import quotas, slashing tariffs and streamlining import procedures in order to make Japan, this year, the least protected market of all the great trading powers, including...
...Masuo Ikeda: Three Portfolois--"Traveller's Joy", "Seven Deadly Sins", and "Venus". Art/Asia Gallery, 49 Palmer St. Cambridge, through June...
...Ikeda's line has a sense of sensual humor like Aubrey Beardsley's. The technique of these etchings is effortless, but full of life. Spring incarnate...
Faith and Power. Ikeda himself has moved more and more into the political arena recently. He called for re-establishing diplomatic relations with China long before most other Japanese leaders did, and has written a bestselling book about his impressions of Mao's revolution. In other books, lectures and articles, which are seriously and lengthily analyzed in the Tokyo press, Ikeda has advocated a world food bank, cutbacks in defense expenditures, and nuclear disarmament. His most consuming passion is the creation of an international people-to-people crusade against war. "Government leaders come and go," he explains...
...Ikeda lives modestly in a Japanese-style house with his wife and three children. By many of his followers, he is regarded as a reincarnation of Nichiren, and he obviously relishes the role. True to the teachings of Soka Gakkai, Ikeda equates faith with power-and he makes no bones about the fact that power is what his organization is after. Why not? Says he: "You have to have power to do anything at all meaningful...