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...Kishi's only important defeat in three years in office came when he sought to restore to the hated police some of their former authority, including the right to search suspected criminals. The response was tumultuous from those who remembered the tyrannical "thought-control" days. A brief teachers' walkout closed half the nation's schools. There was a rash of strikes and street demonstrations called by Sohyo, the powerful, 3,500,000-strong alliance of labor unions. Socialist delegates rioted in the Diet and tried to kidnap the Speaker to prevent a vote. When even important members...
...brother finally arranged an interview with Prime Minister Yoshida, but it was not a success. The 74-year-old Yoshida correctly saw the younger Kishi as a potential rival. Kishi regarded Yoshida as a stumbling block in the way of a fusion of all conservative factions in Japan against the Socialists and Communists...
...took Kishi only five years to get to his goal as Prime Minister. He first helped organize a new Democratic Party made up of a dissident segment of Yoshida's Liberals and a group of "progressives." But he was able to overthrow Yoshida only by entering into an alliance with the Socialists-even though his ultimate aim was to create an anti-Socialist force. Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama, who succeeded Yoshida, had suffered a stroke, and hung on for two trembling years before resigning. He was followed by Tanzan Ishibashi, who appointed Kishi his Foreign Minister and then fell...
Article IX. As Prime Minister, Kishi has had to deal simultaneously with the Socialist opposition and with his own faction-ridden party, which cannot always be depended upon for support. His longtime goal is revision of the "MacArthur" constitution ("It may take years, and I may not live to see it, but I intend to push forward until I die"). He proposes to make the Emperor again "head of state" instead of merely a symbol, to have provincial governors appointed by Tokyo instead of elected, and to alter the House of Councilors-Japan's Senate-by substituting a number...
...area unit," and a tank, a "special combat vehicle." But, under whatever name, Japan's armed forces are small, and required to make do on less than 2% of the nation's gross national product. Pacifism is so ingrained in the new Japan that not even Kishi is likely in the foreseeable future to get more money or more men for this anomalous army...