Word: kishi
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...offset Socialist cries for a complete break with "U.S. imperialism," MacArthur plumped for an agreement highly favorable to Japan, which Kishi could point to as proof that the U.S. and Japan were now equal partners. The original Security Treaty had tied Japan to the U.S. in perpetuity, had entitled the U.S. to "come to Japan's defense" whether or not Japan so desired. The new treaty was limited to ten years, at which point Japan could refuse to renew it, and pledged the U.S. to "consult" with Japan before reacting militarily to a threat to Japanese or Far Eastern...
...masses, who still cherish great respect for their nation's anarchic intelligentsia and are so reluctant to take a stand on anything that opinion polls regularly turn up a majority of "don't knows." When the Red-led unions and students launched their increasingly violent campaign against Kishi and the treaty, the majority of conservative-voting Japanese almost certainly disapproved-but did nothing...
...trip to Japan was planned five months ago, it was assumed that he would arrive in To kyo fresh from Moscow, impregnable in the mantle of a peacemaker and relaxer of East-West tensions. Another misadventure MacArthur could not reasonably have been expected to foresee was how fatally Nobusuke Kishi would play into the hands of his opponents...
...lower house of the Diet was scheduled to consider the Security Treaty, its Socialist minority sought to prevent the session by barricading Speaker Ichiro Kiyose in his office. When Kiyose called in 500 cops to break the blockade, the Socialists walked out of the session entirely. At that, Nobusuke Kishi-a man with an un-Japanese addiction to direct action-persuaded his Liberal-Democratic majority to pass the treaty then and there...
...Japanese-who hold to the characteristically Oriental belief that if the majority of a group wants a rifle and a determined minority insists on no rifle, the proper solution is to get half a rifle-Kishi's entirely legal maneuver constituted a heinous sin known as "the tyranny of the majority." And to compound this offense, Kishi had so arranged things that, if the Diet were still in session, the treaty would automatically be ratified on the day of Dwight Eisenhower's scheduled arrival. To many Japanese this seemed entirely too much like truckling...