Word: kishi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...logical result is the signing this week of the revised U.S.-Japanese Treaty. As Prime Minister Kishi and U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter put their signatures to paper, there is every prospect that Japan and the U.S. will stand together in the Pacific for years to come. What is not so certain is how long Kishi will survive as Prime Minister. There is no tradition of lasting leadership in Japan, and the Liberal-Democratic Party is little more than a coalition of eight major factions, each with its own leader. "They are like a pack of wolves," says...
...these terms the new U.S. -Japanese Treaty may well be Kishi's monument, even if in the rough and tumble of Japanese politics it should also become in time his political tombstone. Prime Minister Kishi himself remains serenely optimistic, as befits a man who follows the philosophy of the "blue mountain in the distance." He explains: "The road to the mountain is obscured by many foothills. Some of these must be climbed, some must be gone around, and a good road must be built as the advance proceeds. In some places there will be short cuts, but in general...
Only 14 years ago such a treaty would have been unthinkable, and that it would be signed for Japan by Kishi, inconceivable. Then, Japan was a nation in ruins: a third of its factories had been leveled by U.S. bombers; eight of every ten ships in its merchant fleet lay at the bottom of the ocean; its exhausted population faced starvation. And Kishi himself was cleaning latrines in Sugamo Prison while awaiting trial as a war criminal. Defeat was so complete and catastrophic that the Japanese seemed to take an almost perverse pleasure in the totality of their humiliation. "Shigataganai...
...father, Hidesuke Kishi, was a minor government official in a village on the green, indented western tip of Honshu, Japan's main island. His scholarly attainments won him a job with the aristocratic Sato family, and he tutored their eldest daughter, Moyo, in Chinese literature. He was permitted to marry Moyo on condition that he change his name to Sato and, for the remainder of his life, was so much under his wife's thumb that he made little impression on their ten children. The Prime Minister was the second son of Hidesuke and Moyo...
...footsteps as a yoshi. A marriage was arranged for him with his cousin Yoshiko, the daughter of his father's brother. Although the marriage did not take place for another seven years (Yoshiko was only eleven at the time), Nobusuke resumed his father's name of Kishi and was stricken from the Sato family register...