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That bedeviled man, Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi, did not even get the privilege of quitting office gracefully last week. Victimized politically for putting through the Japanese-U.S. Security Treaty by the fanatics of the left, he suffered a final personal indignity at the hands of a fanatic of the right, who knifed him in the thigh...
...Cake. Even the choice of his successor brought untidy dispute. From all over Japan, Liberal Democratic delegates convened in Tokyo to pick a new party president, who would automatically become the party's nominee for Premier. Kishi's choice was Trade Minister Hayato Ikeda. But ability or ideology had little to do with the battle. As is their custom, big Japanese business firms, hoping for future friendly treatment in such matters as import licenses, taxes and government contracts, backed one or another of the eight party factions to the tune of $4,000,000. By common consent...
Americans everywhere should realize, I think, that Mr. Kishi's government canceled the visit of President Eisenhower solely out of concern for the President's wellbeing...
Three weeks after the rioting throngs in Tokyo forced the cancellation of President Eisenhower's visit to Japan, one section of the Japanese people got their first chance to express their feelings on 1) how they felt about the new U.S.-Japanese security pact, and 2) Premier Nobusuke Kishi, whose Liberal Democrats had approved it. The vote took place in relatively remote Aomori prefecture, which is coincidentally the site of one of the largest U.S. Air Force bases in Japan. There Liberal Democrat Governor Iwao Yamazaki was running for reelection. His Socialist opponent went all out to argue that...
...least, the Aomori election was strong evidence that the frenzied mobs that had snake-danced around the Diet for days on end (another 25,000 turned out on call last week to demonstrate against the pact) were not the expression of some deep country-wide revulsion against Kishi's policy of alliance with...