Word: kishi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trouble in the House. Ever since he introduced his Police Duties Execution Bill to cope with the nation's alarming rise in crime and labor violence (TIME, Nov. 3), Kishi has been denounced by the unions and the Socialists for wanting to return to harsh prewar police rule. Last week 180,000 coal miners, 60,000 postal and 50,000 telegraph workers went on strike in protest. Railroad workers forced the cancellation of 150 train schedules, and a brief teachers' walkout closed half the nation's schools. But Kishi's most nettlesome problem...
Weary of always being outvoted in the Diet, the Socialists have tried to outshout and outbrawl their opponents, at times reducing Japan's postwar democracy to a mess. Faced with these outbursts, Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi remained politely placid, meek and smiling. "But Kishi's smile," the Socialists admit with just a trace of admiration, "is like a rose-it has thorns that slash." Last week, faced with the toughest battle in his 21 months in office, Kishi injected some thorny parliamentary shenanigans...
Alarmed by the government's inability to control lawlessness, Kishi placed before the Diet a bill to restore to the police such elementary powers as the right to search suspected criminals for arms and to disperse mobs. While employers generally cheered the new bill, socialists and labor unions made angry protest...
...brisk fighting broke out though members themselves stayed out of the line of fire while they sent forth their male secretaries to bop one another with chairs and lunch boxes. Socialists, stirring up the ruckus inside the Diet and labor leaders calling a general strike outside it, were, said Kishi, threatening the parliamentary democracy "which you claim to cherish." But they were not the only opponents of the bill. Throughout Japan last week, responsible men and women with vivid memories of the days when the police could arrest and torture as part of the government's thought-control policy...
...arrested, questioned and then released at one station, only to be picked up and questioned again at another. Such memories were apparently a good deal more painful than the current lawlessness. With the sole exception of the English-language Japan Times, not a single major newspaper rallied to Kishi's side...