Word: ishibashi
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...Finance Minister in Japan's third postwar Cabinet, pudgy, iron-willed Tanzan Ishibashi feuded frequently with General Douglas MacArthur and was purged from office in 1947. Last week, as the strong-minded Minister of International Trade and Industry in the indecisive administration of Ichiro Hatoyama, Ishibashi once again crossed swords with the U.S. In the Oriental Economist, a magazine he has owned since 1939, Ishibashi made the first official announcement that Japan will press for increased "economic and cultural exchanges" with Red China...