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...Liberal Democratic Party; of a heart attack; in Tokyo. In the 36 years that he served as a member of the Diet, Kawashima held a variety of Cabinet posts, but his real strength was as a party organizer and kingmaker; his politicking behind the scenes contributed to Hayato Ikeda's election as party president and Premier in 1960, as well as to that of his successor, Eisaku Sato...
After Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi scanned the book, he erupted. Among other things, Kawasaki had quoted a remark generally attributed to General Charles de Gaulle: just before a formal chat in 1964 with the late Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, he confided that "today I am going to have a little talk with a transistor-radio salesman." Even more annoying to Aichi was Kawasaki's charge that in Japan "there is clearly an absence of leadership at the top, no realization of what is best in the national interest, a shortage of moral courage and discipline." Political parties got short...
...reason Western critics may have cottoned to Ikeda sooner than his countrymen is that his art is frankly influenced by the West. He works only in red, blue, yellow and black, partly because Piet Mondrian used these colors...
...Ikeda's subject matter is decidedly pop-Oriented: he seems humorously obsessed with the artifacts and luxuries of modern Japan's mass-produced prosperity. Rose Is Rose is a three-tiered print that piles flowers atop a pair of flowered, high-heeled shoes fitted into a box; the shoes in turn are on top of a pair of lipsticked girls who are also enclosed in a box. Woman from New York kids the Vogue ideal: a striped raincoat strides boldly across the paper-minus its wearer...
Despite his acknowledged indebtedness to Western artists, Ikeda's work also reflects Japanese life and artistic traditions. While supporting himself by doing portraits of bar patrons along Tokyo's Ginza (at 280 apiece), he studied older graphic techniques, and from them evolved his own distinctive style, in which he scratches directly on a metal plate with an etching needle to obtain a nervous, dramatically blurred line. "Why do Westerners insist that Japanese artists remain 'quaint' and 'traditional' in order to fit their image of artistry in Japan?" he asks. "We dress just as Americans...