Word: kishi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Premier Nobusuke Kishi's tricky victory of the Chinese flags (TIME, April 21) did not last long. To make a $196 million barter deal with Red China, he had agreed to a Red Chinese trade mission in Tokyo, which would be allowed to fly Communist China's flag over their headquarters and on their cars. To mollify Nationalist China-which had slapped a protest boycott on Japanese goods-Kishi ruled that Red China's flag would not have diplomatic status in Tokyo, but would get police protection under the laws against damaging private property. Formosa was pacified...
...Equating the Chinese flag with ordinary property," it huffed, "is a gross insult to the dignity of the People's Republic of China." Furthermore, said Peking, Premier Kishi was "two-faced" and "a notorious Fascist." In a clear attempt to influence Japan's forthcoming elections, Peking spokesmen crudely threatened that Red China would not revive the barter agreement so long as "the impediment of the Kishi government continued to exist...
Unfazed. heavy-lidded Nobusuke Kishi blandly assured Formosa that he did not intend to recognize Peking, and that, far from conceding that the Reds had a "right" to fly their flag in Tokyo, his government would "do its best" to dissuade them from doing so. But, shrugged Kishi, if Peking's representatives insisted, their flag would be entitled to Japanese police protection-not under the rights of diplomatic courtesy but under ordinary laws against trespass and property damage. Last week, reportedly after pressure from the U.S. State Department, warning of the economic and political consequences of a prolonged breach...
...Burning Desire. Kishi's enemies, making a pun on his name, call him ryō kishi-meaning, roughly, "one who tries to keep a foot on both banks of the river." During the three years he spent in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison as a "war crimes suspect"-he was General Tojo's Commerce and Industry Minister-Kishi claims to have been seized by a "burning desire" to see Japan rebuilt according to democratic principles. Yet, as Premier, he has surrounded himself with a kitchen Cabinet composed of men like bull-necked Nationalist Okinori Kaya, 69. Kaya...
Egged on by such advisers, Kishi has chipped away at the Anglo-Saxon political concepts of Japan's 1946 "MacArthur Constitution." presses for at least a partial return to the hierarchical, authoritarian traditions native to Japan. By order of the Kishi government, Japanese schoolchildren will soon find themselves doing playground drill in the militaristic prewar fashion, and will be subjected to regular doses of "moral education...