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...marchers poured through the streets of Tokyo. Gong-clanging Buddhists snake-danced with plump bobby-soxers, tram drivers and dockworkers before the granite walls of the Diet; other thousands jammed the streets outside the U.S. embassy, stamping their feet and chanting rhythmically, "Ike don't come!" "Down with Kishi!" "Yankee go home...
Tyranny of Sorts. The shouting was aimed at the new U.S. security treaty that Premier Nobusuke Kishi had rammed through Parliament fortnight ago. To Occidental observers, the reasoning behind the uproar seemed inscrutably Oriental. The new pact actually reduced U.S. control over its leased military bases. Unlike the treaty it replaced, it ran for only ten years, after which it could be abrogated by either side. But much is irrational in Japan's politics these days. At war's end, the U.S. forced the Emperor to grant unprecedented political freedom. Ever since, the Japanese have reveled...
...tough answer to Nikita Khrushchev's threats to "atomize" all U.S. forward bases, Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi decided to rush through the new U.S.-Japanese treaty of alliance which has long been stalled in the House of Representatives by opposition Socialists...
When Kiyose managed to croak out the words to open the session, all remaining Socialists and 27 members of Kishi's own Liberal-Democratic Party stalked out. Nonetheless, shortly after midnight, the House finally got around to passing the treaty by a standing vote. Then the 259 Liberal-Democrats present (quorum needed: 156) raised three throaty banzais and adjourned...
Next day 30,000 left-wing students and trade unionists paraded through Tokyo's streets shouting "Down with Kishi!" and "U2, go home!" and the Soviet Union formally protested against the treaty. By his coup Kishi assured that the treaty would become law on the day (June 19) President Eisenhower is scheduled to arrive in Japan. For the constitution provides that if the upper house (where Kishi's majority is even bigger) should for some reason delay its approval, any measure passed by the lower house of the Diet becomes law automatically after 30 days. But the Socialists...