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When 60-year-old Economist Hayato Ikeda succeeded hapless Nobusuke Kishi as Premier of Japan three weeks ago, a hopeful gleam lit up Peking's eyes. Though Ikeda, of course, was avowedly pro-American, he had once expressed enthusiasm for a revival of Japanese trade with China. Peking thought a little buttering up might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Chinese, Go Home! | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

Communist delegations, however, have a talent for invincible insensitivity. Arriving at Tokyo's Haneda Airport, Delegate Liu announced that he brought Red China's"hearty congratulations to the Japanese people for preventing the Eisenhower war-planning visit and overthrowing the Kishi Cabinet." And at the anti-bomb conference, Liu and Japan's Red-lining Chairman Kaoru Yasui congratulated each other on "a series of victories over American imperialism" in a manner so heavy-handed that participating organizations ranging from the Japan Federation of Youth to the Federation of Housewives threatened to withdraw from the conference unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Chinese, Go Home! | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...rooms, Liu and his fellow delegates then settled down to waiting for what they anticipated would be a parade of Japanese businessmen and politicians seeking a new Tokyo-Peking accommodation. But the parade never took place. Instead, even those Japanese newspapers that had sympathized with the June riots against Kishi proceeded to lambaste the Chinese delegation for "intervention in Japan's domestic affairs." Snapped Tokyo Shimbun: "The June demonstrations were manifestations of the people's anger against the Kishi Cabinet, not against Eisenhower. This Chinese delegation was expected to improve Japan-Peking relations. Instead, it has aggravated them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Chinese, Go Home! | 8/15/1960 | See Source »

...second part of the program. Yoichi Yokoburi, journalist for the Kyoto News Bureau and a left-wing socialist, said the Tokyo riots were the result of widespread hatred of the pending security treaty, and even more perhaps, anger at the "Fascist-like actions of the Kishi regimo," which used "police force in the Diet chamber to bring about ratification." The days of rioting were not Communist-inspired, he told the audience...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: African Describes 'Personality' of Dark Continent | 8/4/1960 | See Source »

Flocking in Cadillacs to the convention hall, the candidates bargained furiously to put together a stop-Ikeda ticket. But Ikeda was backed by two banks, a shipbuilder, the Nomura Securities Co. and much of the old Mitsui industrial combine, as well as by Premier Kishi. One rival, Party Vice President Bamboku Ohno, wailed: "I have locked up in a safe Kishi's written promise to make me Japan's next Premier." .Maybe he did. But Kishi stuck with Ikeda. At the last minute. Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama tossed Ikeda a block of 49 votes that had cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Last Blow | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

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