Word: ishida
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...month, Premier Ikeda found that just about no one wanted the job of runing the debt-ridden road, which carried 5.4 billion passengers in 1962. He finally found a taker who was old enough (72) to retire and who had never run a railroad. The new president is Reisuke Ishida, an economic adviser to Japanese military governors in Hong Kong and China during World War II, who was purged by the Allies in 1946 and has since stayed in the background. He inaugurated his railroad career last week by insisting that the Japanese railways must have more government...