Word: kishi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marked his recovery by playing Burning Tree Club golf course-and scheduling a match for this week with Japan's visiting Premier Nobusuke Kishi...
...Premier: Nobusuke Kishi...
...chose the civil service, joined the Agriculture and Commerce Ministry as a clerk, rose rapidly, toured (1926-27) in the U.S. and Europe studying the steel industry. Posted to Manchuria in 1937, he was a top economic czar of the Japanese-occupied territory. In 1939, aged 42, astute Kishi returned to Japan as Vice Minister of Commerce and Industry...
World War II. Invited to join militaristic Premier Tojo's wartime Cabinet, Kishi served for three years as Commerce and Industry Minister, resigned in 1944 after a showdown with Tojo over military strategy (Minister Kishi wanted to sue for peace if the U.S. landed at Saipan). Arrested by the U.S. in 1945 as a suspected war criminal and put into Tokyo's grim Sugano Prison, Kishi mopped floors, cleaned latrines, had "plenty of time for soul-searching" until his release in 1948 (he was never brought to trial). Kishi regards his prison term as the turning point...
...Formosa Kishi called British unilateral abandonment of the Communist China trade differential (TIME, June 10) "regrettable." But in Washington he is expected to make a strong presentation of Japan's case for similarly increased trade with Red China...