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Bitterness at Home. Yet there was friendliness and warmth for Kishi in the U.S., and the revised treaty was generally hailed as taking into proper account Japan's independent status. President Eisenhower accepted the Prime Minister's invitation to visit Japan on his way home from Moscow. Kishi also got a favorable reception in Canada. Only in Japan did bitterness appear. The big Tokyo daily newspaper Asahi responded angrily to Florida's Senator Spessard Holland's suggestion that Kishi get the Nobel Peace Prize. "JAPANESE PEOPLE ARE FLABBERGASTED!" snorted Asahi. "Kishi has not contributed to peace...
...gold and white East Room of the White House last week, Japan's Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi brushstroked his signature to the new treaty with the U.S. (TIME, Jan. 25). Just a century ago, in this same room, President James Buchanan received the first diplomatic delegation to leave Japan in modern times, which was why President Eisenhower, to the surprise of the Japanese, presented Kishi with a commemorative medal bearing the face of President Buchanan, one of the U.S.'s least-remembered Presidents...
...were Marine Commandant David Shoup, who earned his Medal of Honor at Tarawa, and Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh ("31-Knot") Burke, who earned his nickname by sending his destroyer flotillas racing against the Japanese fleet at their top speed. There may well have been memories for Prime Minister Kishi, who, in bygone days, signed Japan's declaration of war against...
...serious was all this press criticism against Kishi in his homeland? One of democracy's odd manifestations in post-war Japan is the way all newspapers, including the conservative sheets, are compulsively antigovernment, perhaps as a reaction to the slavish and subservient newspapers of the war years (explains one Japanese newspaperman seriously: "To do otherwise would be to act feudally...
...Kishi's ambitions for the police raised some of the old fears about democracy's hold on Japan, so has the crudity of Socialist tactics in the Diet and on the streets. Since the war the Socialist Party has steadily increased its share of the total vote, from little more than one-tenth to nearly one-third. But Kishi has gained from Socialist rashness. In the 1958 elections, Kishi for the first time limited the Socialist gains to less than 3%, and subsequent wrangling among the leaders resulted in a Socialist split between right-and left-wing factions...