Word: kishi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dragons v. Giants. At week's end the Socialists massed 100,000 demonstrators around the Diet to shout futilely against the midnight ratification of the treaty. They carried signs reading "Kishi, Kill Yourself!" Across the street, in his official residence, Kishi passed the early hours of the evening watching a televised baseball game in which the Chunichi Dragons edged the Tokyo Giants, 3-1. Close to midnight, Kishi posed for news photographers and glanced at his watch. "Seven minutes more," he said, smiling. As the clock struck 12 and the Security Treaty was automatically ratified, he nibbled a sandwich...
Morning After. Next day, the Japanese newspapers continued their amazing mental acrobatics (see PRESS). The Tokyo Asahi, which had been violently denouncing the Security Treaty, blandly admitted that "there is a great improvement in the new treaty as compared with the old one." Nagoya's Chubu Nippon declared: "Kishi's resignation precedes all other conceivable measures as a way out of chaos, no matter how justifiable his stand may seem. Among other things he is responsible for, Kishi has to render an account of how he came to postpone the Eisenhower visit...
...Kishi's dedicated mission is nearly at an end. Once the U.S. Congress ratifies the Security Treaty and the documents are exchanged in Tokyo (possible date: June 27), he is expected to step down as Premier. His resignation will be followed by national elections, which even the Socialists concede will be won by Kishi's party, the Liberal Democrats. The likely new Premier: Trade Minister Hayato Ikeda, 61, who was one of the very few to support Kishi to the end. A Liberal Democratic spokesman said, "Kishi has become a scapegoat. He has taken on his own shoulders...
...agitator. When a minority group of moderates bolted the party last November because of disgust with the Socialist leadership's parroting of the Communist line, Asanuma was elected chairman of the remainder. Before the split, the Socialists polled a total of 13 million votes, v. 23 million for Kishi's Democratic Liberals...
Quiet, tenacious and coldly intellectual, Nozaka prefers to stay in the background and strives to keep the Communist Party offstage as well. On occasion, when public opinion has turned hostile to too much violence, he has urged the Japanese Communist Party to strive to be "lovable." In the anti-Kishi, antiAmerican agitation, the Communists have supplied money (cost of the riots: an estimated $1,400,000), direction and organizing ability, but have cannily let the Socialists, Sohyo and the Zengakuren crackpots take the vocal lead...