Word: kishi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acknowledgment that Japan, which "must trade to live." is free to follow Britain's example and increase the level of its nonstrategic trade with Red China. Stressed Kishi: his government intends to export no strategic goods to China nor will it recognize the Peking regime...
Fifty-seven hours after he flew in for "frank and friendly'' discussions with President Eisenhower on U.S.-Japanese relations, Japan's new Conservative Premier Nobusuke Kishi had won his country's greatest postwar victory. It consisted of a set of fundamental changes in Washington's Japan policy that will go far toward establishing his fully sovereign and renascent country as the U.S.'s coequal partner in the Far East. In a joint communiqué issued by the President and the Premier after their talks and from less official leakage, it was plain that Kishi...
Political Career. Well established as a business tycoon (pulp, chemicals) when finally "depurged" in 1952, onetime Bureaucrat Kishi took a long, hard look at resurgent Japan. went into politics. He soon became the dominant figure in the backstage maneuverings from which: 1) Japan's two big feuding conservative parties, the Liberals and the Democrats, were merged into the gigantic Liberal-Democratic Party and ranged in solid opposition to the Socialists and Communists; and 2) Kishi himself emerged last winter as Foreign Minister under 72-year-old Premier Tanzan Ishibashi. Four months ago, Nobusuke Kishi became his country...
Foreign Policy. Swarthy, slight (5 ft. 4 in. 130 Ibs.) Premier Kishi is as avid a golfer as President Eisenhower, happily looks forward to a match with Ike at Burning Tree this week. His handicap is a "state secret,'' but under the pressure of work it has gone up from 15 to 21. No state secret are the "suggestions" for a "new era" in Japanese-U.S. relations that he will raise with Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles. Basic to Kishi's problem, as his political opponents are well aware, is an ominous statistic...
...Also on Kishi's mind: restoration of at least some Japanese civil administration on U.S.-controlled Okinawa; revisions in the U.S.-Japanese defense and security agreements-e.g., Kishi is bringing with him a three-year timetable for a Japanese armed-forces buildup, will probably ask for a similar timetable for the U.S. withdrawal of at least part of its forces from the Japanese home islands; and, hottest of all, increased scope for Japanese trade with Red China...