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...buck a trend, Japan's electioneering politicians have unanimously jumped on the Kennedy bandwagon. The week of Kennedy's victory, Japan's incumbent Premier Hayato Ikeda staged a TV debate, frankly modeled on the Nixon-Kennedy debates, with his two opponents. Socialist Saburo Eda and Democratic Socialist Suehiro Nishio. Convinced that it was the New Frontier that had won for Kennedy. Ikeda promised: "My Liberal-Democratic Party will have precisely such a New Frontier program in Japan." In response. Socialist Eda insisted that it was he, not Ikeda, who was just like Kennedy -"flexible and progressive...
...Socialists have tried to make Yamaguchi one of the top issues in the current Japanese election campaign. They called him a "cat's paw of monopolistic capitalist forces" (by which they meant Premier Hayato Ikeda's ruling Liberal Democrats) and paraded Asanuma's widow about in hope of a sympathy vote. After Yamaguchi's hanged body was found, Saburo Eda, acting chairman of the Socialists, shifted his ground and growled: "The fact that an important criminal was able to commit suicide exposes the utter irresponsibility of the authorities in charge...
...China and Japan," Asanuma organized the snake-dancing demonstrations that kept President Eisenhower away from Japan last June. Since then, ex-Premier Nobusuke Kishi and Socialist Jotaro Kawakami have both been stabbed by fanatics. This did not deter the Socialists from launching further violent demonstrations. Crying "Down with Ikeda," left-wing Zengakuren students charged police barricades at the Diet, began their ritualistic snake dance before the Premier's official residence...
Death was a television spectacle of horror in Japan last week. Before TV cameras, nearly all Japan's top politicians were gathered together on the same platform in Tokyo's Hibiya Hall. There was conservative Premier Hayato Ikeda, Democratic Socialist Leader Suehiro Nishio and Socialist Party Chairman Inejiro Asanuma. They were there to debate the issues with each other publicly, to open the general campaigning for next month's elections...
...Premier Ikeda and his government were not happy about their guests either. Originally, the Japanese Foreign Office had promised to extend Liu & Co.'s visitors' visas if they behaved. At week's end the Foreign Office let it be known that "in present circumstances" the Chinese delegation would probably have to leave Japan on schedule this week...