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...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...
...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...