Word: kishi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chopping away with the matched set of woods and irons given to him last year by Fellow Golfer Ike Eisenhower, Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi finished well out of the yen in a Foreign Office-Foreign Diplomatic Corps tournament. With an old amateur's studied, off-day melancholy, Kishi brooded: "I just could not get going." With pro shop objectivity, the manager of the Sengokuhara Golf Course said: "Kishi seemed to be in his usual form...
Greeting the Protestant delegates at a monster rally in Tokyo's vast Sports Arena, Japan's Buddhist Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi said politely: "Japan is not a Christian country, but Japanese Christians wield a powerful moral influence out of all proportion to their numbers." Assembled in Tokyo, just 99 years after the first Protestant mission was organized in Japan, were 3,000 Japanese delegates and 1,200 delegates from 62 other nations. The occasion: the 14th World Convention on Christian Education, sponsored by the World Council of Christian Education and Sunday School Association. Theme of the convention...
Victims of Illusion. By hitting Japan economically, where it is most sensitive (Japan's trade deficit was $1.4 billion last year), the Chinese Reds hope to stir up opposition to Premier Kishi and support for Peking-Tokyo trade. The Reds glibly dangle the bait of "600 million customers" before the eyes of Tokyo businessmen, although experience has shown that neither Communist China nor Japan has any great desire to buy the kind of consumer goods the other has to sell. Japanese businessmen also soon discover that they can deal only with state-owned Communist trading corporations rather than...
...Since Kishi became premier a year ago. Sato has been giving him support, explaining that "to be a successful politician one must always be with the main current." His appointment last week caused the stock of Mitsubishi, one of Japan's monster combines, to rise. Sato has such close contacts with Japanese big business and such a private information service that his nickname is "Hayamimi' (Fast Ears...
...Premier Kishi, with big-business backing, is in no mood to tolerate Socialist monkey business, nor is he apt to be too tolerant of the intriguing that has gone on inside his own Cabinet and party. Standing in front of a row of potted plants, Kishi pointedly remarked to a reporter: "These plants were all selected by a master gardener, but some are not perfect under the surface. Who knows but there may be still two or three like that in my new Cabinet...