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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...
Less than an hour later, Japan's tough-minded Premier Nobusuke Kishi fatalistically paid the cost of his three-year fight for treaty revision. Meeting with the kingpins of his Liberal Democratic Party, Kishi announced: "I feel strongly the need for a fresh public atmosphere. Therefore, I have decided to resign." Kishi's one condition: the Liberal Democrats must first agree upon his successor...
...Fence Menders. With that, a curious sense of anticlimax swept Japan. Returning wearily to his home in suburban Shibuya, Kishi found it free of the yelling, snake-dancing mobs that have besieged it every day since May 20. Taking advantage of the calm, workmen were busy repairing Kishi's smashed gates and fences...
...Scramblers. Despite last week's lull, the trials of Japanese democracy were far from over. Instead of uniting in the face of crisis, the eight factions that make up the Liberal Democratic Party were engaged in savage infighting over who was to succeed Kishi. Japan's big businessmen, anxious to get the country back to normal, were throwing their weight behind Trade Minister Hayato Ikeda, 61, the tough-minded economist who had helped the U.S. occupation's Economic Adviser (and Detroit banker) Joseph Dodge lick Japan's postwar inflation. The Socialists hinted that they might offer...
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...