Word: iwao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they felt about the new U.S.-Japanese security pact, and 2) Premier Nobusuke Kishi, whose Liberal Democrats had approved it. The vote took place in relatively remote Aomori prefecture, which is coincidentally the site of one of the largest U.S. Air Force bases in Japan. There Liberal Democrat Governor Iwao Yamazaki was running for reelection. His Socialist opponent went all out to argue that a vote for Yamazaki was a vote for U.S. bases, for Kishi, and possibly for war. Last week Aomori's farmers and fishermen responded by giving Yamazaki 45,000 votes more than he had received...