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Sipping green tea in his 30-room official residence last week. Premier Nobusuke Kishi ignored the dangling ropes and scaffolds outside his open window as workmen installed air conditioning on an upper floor. Even when a heavy window frame slipped from a worker's hand and landed with a splintering crash on the ground, the smooth flow of Kishi's talk and his relaxed manner did not change...
...Kishi would need all his aplomb in the coming month as he tours eleven countries in Europe and the Americas. His object : to gain face for his countrymen, who morbidly nurse a national feeling that Japan, while growing economically strong, is still "the orphan of Asia," disliked by its neighbors, ignored or discounted by the West. Sensitive Japanese are already wincing at the journalists' jeers in England at the discovery that a London public relations firm had been hired to boost the Premier's stock there. Other Japanese fear a disaster like the visit to London of Foreign...
...took a tactful explanation from the British embassy to convince Premier Kishi that during his tour he should not attempt to lay a wreath at London's Cenotaph, the memorial to Britain's war dead. Unable to understand why the world is not willing to let bygones be bygones, the Japanese complain that they are not treated as equals, like the Germans, whose war guilt, they argue, was at least as great as their...
...Europe are voluntarily controlled to avoid provoking tariff quotas; export licenses are refused for inferior articles in an effort to upgrade the longstanding Japanese reputation for poor workmanship and imitative design. In his effort to convince the West that Japan deserves less suspicion and more comradeship, Kishi can boast that his nation is the most democratic in Asia, has the highest literacy rate, and possesses a competent work force whose real wages have risen 20% in the past five years...
...Kishi is carrying with him a suitcase full of decorations (ranging from the Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum to Orders of the Rising Sun and the Sacred Treasure), and also awillingness to listen attentively to "frank expressions of views" from leaders of the West. Some of his problems...