Word: kishi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last week, as the capstone of their fanatical drive to kill the treaty, the 165 members of the Diet's Socialist minority solemnly vowed to resign en masse, a move that they hoped would simultaneously force immediate dissolution of the Diet and topple the government of Premier Nobusuke Kishi. To supplement these "parliamentary tactics," the Socialists screwed up to more frenzied pitch than ever their fortnight-old campaign of violent demonstrations against Kishi and the Eisenhower visit...
Dear Students. For a start, a student mob stormed Kishi's Tokyo residence, where 500 police waited nervously under a green flag reading "Dear Students, Please Do Not Enter." The mob pulled down an iron gate, temporarily captured five riot trucks and launched a lusty exchange of stickwork that left 83 policemen and 20 students injured. Next targets were the railway stations, where the students joined the big Red-tainted labor union Sohyo in setting up a general strike for the following morning. The method: strangling commuter traffic by kidnaping motormen...
...motormen away in taxis, consoling each captive with a 1,000-yen note ($2.80), which a Sohyo organizer peeled from a thick wad of bills in his hand. With traffic effectively halted, mobs snake-danced through the streets, paraded past the Diet and the U.S. embassy, shouting "Down with Kishi" and "Eisenhower don't come." Ranging from Communists to Kabuki actors,* the mob included one group whose banner bore a likeness of Christ; true to the left-wing bias common among students at missionary-founded schools in the Far East, a contingent even showed up from St. Paul...
...demonstrations had been more anti-Kishi than anti-security pact, and at week's end there were signs that the public was getting tired of the Socialist demonstrators. Independent newspapers, sharply hostile to the government earlier in the week, were critical of Asanuma's antics at the embassy. Snorted Asahi: "Asanuma behaved like Nikita Khrushchev." When word arrived from Washington that President Eisenhower was still determined to go through with the visit to Tokyo so long as Japan's invitation still stood, the Premier sent reassurances that "the greater part of the Japanese people will welcome Eisenhower...
...reminded of the prewar strong-arm groups that made a mockery of prewar parliamentary rule, were deeply alarmed by the trend of events. In the Diet, the opposition benches were still empty-boycotted by Socialist members who were now streaming home to whip their constituents into greater resistance to Kishi. Ugly days had passed and more could come...