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...Department had pondered the wisdom of Ike's going to Japan. Coincidentally, the President's three-day visit will begin on the day the new U.S.-Japanese mutual-defense treaty becomes effective. In recent months, Communist-directed leftists have launched a frenzied drive to topple Premier Nobusuke Kishi's government and torpedo the treaty. To retreat before the agitation of a Communist-led minority would be certain to weaken pro-U.S. forces in Asia, perhaps bring the downfall of the Kishi government and the treaty...
Dear Students. For a start, a student mob stormed Kishi's Tokyo residence, where 500 police waited nervously under a green flag reading "Dear Students, Please Do Not Enter." The mob pulled down an iron gate, temporarily captured five riot trucks and launched a lusty exchange of stickwork that left 83 policemen and 20 students injured. Next targets were the railway stations, where the students joined the big Red-tainted labor union Sohyo in setting up a general strike for the following morning. The method: strangling commuter traffic by kidnaping motormen...
...motormen away in taxis, consoling each captive with a 1,000-yen note ($2.80), which a Sohyo organizer peeled from a thick wad of bills in his hand. With traffic effectively halted, mobs snake-danced through the streets, paraded past the Diet and the U.S. embassy, shouting "Down with Kishi" and "Eisenhower don't come." Ranging from Communists to Kabuki actors,* the mob included one group whose banner bore a likeness of Christ; true to the left-wing bias common among students at missionary-founded schools in the Far East, a contingent even showed up from St. Paul...
...Hagerty. Few of the marchers knew or cared that the new treaty actually increases Japanese control over U.S. bases (TIME, June 6). They were mainly out to get Kishi by whatever means. Nobody professed hatred for Eisenhower, but Sohyo Secretary General Akira Iwai warned: "If he comes at this time, the anti-Kishi feeling will be directed at him as well." When Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty arrives to work out advance arrangements, added Iwai, "We will make him the target of a May Day-scale demonstration to persuade him that the trip be canceled." But, as of early this...
...much as anything else, Kishi's political survival was threatened by rival leaders in his own Liberal-Democratic Party, who see the time as one of opportunity for their own political advancement rather than as a crisis for Japan. "Kishi should quit immediately," said one group of Liberal Democratic wheeler-dealers after a flurry of meetings last week. And when the Premier approached Japan's N.A.M., the powerful Federation of Economic Organizations, for $250,000 to publicize his stand, he was turned away with the remark: "Money is hard to come by these days." Nonetheless, at week...