Word: ishibashi
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Three candidates for the succession, all hale and heartily conservative but not a great deal younger than Hatoyama, presented themselves: Nobusuke Kishi, 60, the party's crafty, pushing secretary-general; Mitsujiro Ishii, 67, its astute planning chairman; and Tanzan Ishibashi, 72, oaken-faced Minister of International Trade and Industry. With no real dispute about policy between them, all vied in vowing to "clean up the party and restore ethics," and boasted of their health. Kishi pointed out that he was the youngest; Ishibashi crowed that "I can eat and drink anything," and that he sleeps well. Amidst reports...
...first ballot Kishi was way out front, and Ishii, finishing third, was automatically eliminated. On the second ballot Ishii threw his strength to Ishibashi, and it was enough to give Ishibashi a narrow victory over Kishi...
Twice-Flunked Liberal. U.S. officials in Tokyo are inclined to regard Ishibashi as "anti-American," but then, all three conservative candidates, with an eye on Japan's postwar generation of new voters and its rising Socialist tide, have been talking up the need of a "readjustment" of U.S.-Japanese relations...
...rose to 80%, according to the government's Economic Planning Board. Japanese businessmen call themselves the "orphans of Asia"; they have spent ten years trying to cultivate new markets and dependable sources of raw materials in South and Central America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. But, argued Ishibashi, "the result has not been satisfactory enough to induce the Japanese to give up Communist China." Said he: "Segregation of the China market has been the major factor contributing to the changes in Japan's trade pattern from prewar...
...Japanese are aware that any hasty expansion of trade with Red China would threaten economic relations with the U.S.; China last year spent only $28.5 million for Japanese goods, while the U.S. imported $450 million worth. Japan's answer, argues wily Ishibashi, is to win "alleviation or removal" of the free world's restrictions on strategic trade with Red China so that Japan can close its trade gap by selling the Communists ships, railroad equipment, generators, steel products, cranes and bulldozers...