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...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...
...Three Pillars." Ikeda will be missed...
...home he had dealt pliably and efficiently with the recalcitrant Socialist opposition, promoted an "income-dou bling" plan that gave Japan the world's highest growth rate and the highest standard of living in its history. On countless trips abroad, Ikeda drummed up good will and trade for postwar Japan, hammered home the idea that his country, with Western Europe and the U.S., was one of the "three pillars" supporting the unity of the free world...
...moved back into the ranks of the world's industrial giants, their allies have been urging them to take a greater interest in foreign affairs - and especially to help out in aid to underdeveloped countries. In the success of the U.S. Peace Corps, Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda thought he saw his chance. Drafting plans for a Japanese copy, he dispatched officials to likely recipients in Southeast Asia and Africa. The Africans were interested enough, but when Ikeda's emissaries got closer to home, they ran head-on into memories of Japan's "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity...
Orientally polite, India, Pakistan and Ceylon studied their fingernails, and said no thanks. Thailand, home of the River Kwai, and Malaysia, which remembers the ignominious defeat of Britain's bastion at Singapore, explained they needed engineers, not volunteers. Indonesia snarled at Ikeda's men as "cat's-paws of American imperialism," and in the Philippines the Japanese were actually pelted with stones. His good works nipped in the bud, Ikeda last week resignedly admitted he was "postponing indefinitely" any further discussion of a Japanese peace corps...