Word: kishi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three candidates for the succession, all hale and heartily conservative but not a great deal younger than Hatoyama, presented themselves: Nobusuke Kishi, 60, the party's crafty, pushing secretary-general; Mitsujiro Ishii, 67, its astute planning chairman; and Tanzan Ishibashi, 72, oaken-faced Minister of International Trade and Industry. With no real dispute about policy between them, all vied in vowing to "clean up the party and restore ethics," and boasted of their health. Kishi pointed out that he was the youngest; Ishibashi crowed that "I can eat and drink anything," and that he sleeps well. Amidst reports...
...chiefly responsible for the big shift is the smoothest kuromaku of them all, Nobusuke Kishi. A candid, confident pro, Kishi masterminded the formation of the Democratic Party and its ouster of Premier Shigeru Yoshida's Liberals from power last year. He is the man who put elderly (72), crippled Ichiro Hatoyama into power and is now preparing to nudge...
...Ambitions. As the newly merged Liberal-Democratic Party held its first meeting last week, the talk was that Kishi had definitely settled on his candidate for new Prime Minister. He is Taketora (literally, Bamboo Tiger) Ogata, 67, ex-editor of Asahi, Japan's leading daily, and Deputy Prime Minister in the late Yoshida regime. Ogata is a stocky, round-faced man whose baggy eyes sometimes suggest a Buddha on a bender. His past includes several incidents of personal courage against Japanese militarists before the war. With Nobusuke Kishi behind him, Ogata is the front-runner for leadership...
...Kishi the kuromaku is beginning to show signs of restlessness. Kishi considers himself a leader of the younger conservatives (he is 59), and believes that they "sooner or later" must take over from the old conservatives. The cast is beginning to suspect that the sceneshifter has been struck with a sudden yearning to play the lead himself...
...knife sprouts in a post beside his head. Swish! Thirty assassins, black-robed like torturers in medieval Europe, jump out of the rhododendrons at him. Snick-snack! The baron, an ineffable swordsman, puts them easily to flight. But alas, the rogues make off with the Lady Kikuji (Keiko Kishi), the baron's sister, and hold her in the Nipponese equivalent of durance vile (same thing, except that the jailer's whip is made of bamboo). In brief, Director Tatsuo Osone has been able to match Hollywood at every point except two-the high-necked kimono is more resistant...