Word: kishi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like the calm after the storm. With less sniping at the Administration than might have been expected in an election year, the Senate overwhelmingly ratified the U.S.-Japanese Security Treaty that Japanese leftists had tried to wreck. With the treaty ratified by both nations (see FOREIGN NEWS), Premier Nobusuke Kishi promised to resign, but the offer had been expected, and it set off no tremors...
...Violence is not only that of pistols and fists; that of the pen is more dangerous." -Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi...
...months, Japan's newspapers willfully and methodically laid the groundwork for crisis with a steady vilification of Premier Nobusuke Kishi and raucous demands that President Eisenhower stay away from Japan. Last May, after Kishi pushed the new U.S. security treaty through Parliament, Asahi called the action "a dictatorship of the majority," provocatively suggested that violence was the only appropriate response. As the street mobs took the cue, increasingly virulent headlines demanded Kishi's resignation, concocted highly imaginative crises: PARTY LEADERS DESERT KISHI, and NATION'S DIET SYSTEM IS STANDING AT CROSS ROADS OF LIFE OR DEATH...
...Akahata (circ. 53,000)-the country's 186 dailies stand for nothing at all. But they are united against the government. It just so happens that the Conservatives have been in power since the end of 1948, but with fine impartiality, the press has flayed all of Premier Kishi's predecessors as savagely as Kishi. Says one leading Tokyo editor: "We would similarly attack any government, including a Socialist one; it is the duty of the press to be anti-government...
Ironically, the Japanese press is largely owned by wealthy conservatives such as Mainichi's Chikao Honda, Yomiuri's Matsutaro Shoriki, and Asahi's Nagataka Murayama, who secretly sympathize with Kishi and the Conservative cause. But they are journalistic eunuchs, interested mainly in profit, who have literally surrendered their papers to the hundreds of young liberal "intellectuals" in Japanese newsrooms. Espousing no cause but that of full-throated antagonism to the party in power, these leftists not only incite to riot but often themselves join the rioters. Last week, when a part of the mob broke...