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Only two months have passed since enfeebled, 73-year-old Ichiro Hatoyama stepped down from the premiership of Japan and gave way to a presumably healthier 72-year-old Tanzan Ishibashi, who boasted, "I can eat and drink anything." But for exactly one-half of the time Prime Minister Ishibashi has been in office, he has been laid up with bronchial pneumonia. Last week, after elbowing their way through a crowd of spectators jamming the garden and the street outside, four doctors politely took off their shoes and entered the sick Premier's Tokyo home to make an official...
That night, as a single light shone from his bedroom window out on the deserted street, Tanzan Ishibashi penned his resignation. "I am sorry," he wrote, "that I have inconvenienced everyone...
This week there were signs that the push forward was stronger than many Japanese had realized. Since occupation's end many conservative groups have been agitating for the revival of Foundation Day. Last week Prime Minister Tanzan Ishibashi's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party proposed a bill in the current Diet session which would in effect revive Foundation Day. And at Kashihara Shrine near Nara, some 10,000 elderly Japanese streamed through the great wooden-pillared gateway to the inner shrine...
According to a Tokyo columnist, Tanzan Ishibashi never learned to count money as a boy, and in early manhood was something of a spendthrift. Today, at 72, Ishibashi is one of Japan's foremost economists, but a reputation for unorthodoxy persists. Last week, becoming Japan's new Premier (TIME, Dec. 24), his first act was to attempt to discount widespread impressions that he: 1) favors an inflationary policy; 2) plans unlimited trade with Red China; 3) opposes U.S. policy on Japan...
...talks with industrialists, Ishibashi said that while he favored an "expanding economy," he would keep tight control over government spending. Insisting that he was not opposed to U.S. policy in general but only to U.S. Army economic decrees, Ishibashi nevertheless promised to observe the embargo on shipments of strategic goods to Red China. He then offered the Foreign Ministry to his chief Liberal-Democratic rival for the premiership, conservative Nobusuke Kishi, 60, onetime economic czar of Manchuria, one of whose electoral handicaps was the fact that he was a member of the Tojo Cabinet at the time of Pearl Harbor...