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...next morning, at his private home in Shibuya suburb, Kishi was visited by a prominent member of the Imperial household. In what amounted to a command from the Emperor himself, Kishi was told that the Imperial chamberlains had decided that Emperor Hirohito, who was scheduled to ride with Eisenhower from the Tokyo airport, could "not be put in a position where he might be involved in politics." Obviously, the chamberlains feared that any attack on the bulletproof, chrysanthemum-paneled imperial limousine would not only wreck U.S.-Japanese relations, but also possibly destroy the already fragile myth that the Emperor...
Fighting for time, Kishi summoned two Liberal Democratic chieftains, and got no comfort from them. At 4 o'clock, Kishi told the assembled Cabinet he had decided to ask Eisenhower to postpone his visit to Japan. In obvious relief, the Cabinet endorsed his decision, and it was forwarded to U.S. Ambassador Douglas Mac-Arthur...
Lost Scalp. In the eyes of even his closest supporters, Kishi was finished. Against him were ranged the Socialists, the Communists, the hot-eyed Zengaku-ren students. Every Tokyo newspaper, except the English-language Japan Times, called for his scalp. In his own faction-ridden Liberal Democratic Party, knives were being sharpened as the politicos dreamed of artfully seizing the premiership-just as Kishi himself had captured the post three years before...
Where had Kishi miscalculated? Events had been set in train in mid-May when the Premier told his Liberal Democrats, "We are going to go all out to get the Security Treaty through the Diet." The Socialists went all out to stop him: they blockaded the 76-year-old Speaker of the House in his office; when he was freed by police and entered the chamber, Socialist Deputies nearly strangled him. With only Liberal Democratic Deputies voting, the Security Treaty was approved by a standing vote...
...Kishi's maneuver won violent condemnation in the press. Ignoring the fact that the Socialists were the first to employ violence, newspapers blamed the Premier for "trampling democracy underfoot." Some of Kishi's own Liberal Democrats seemed to agree. The Communist Party happily stoked the flames. "We must block Eisenhower's visit in order to make clear that the campaign is against U.S. imperialism," said Communist Kaoru Yasui...