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Victims of Illusion. By hitting Japan economically, where it is most sensitive (Japan's trade deficit was $1.4 billion last year), the Chinese Reds hope to stir up opposition to Premier Kishi and support for Peking-Tokyo trade. The Reds glibly dangle the bait of "600 million customers" before the eyes of Tokyo businessmen, although experience has shown that neither Communist China nor Japan has any great desire to buy the kind of consumer goods the other has to sell. Japanese businessmen also soon discover that they can deal only with state-owned Communist trading corporations rather than...
...minutes of the session were left-Next day the Socialists filibustered so successfully agains: the election of the committee chairmen-u procedure that usually takes 90 minutes-that by the stroke of midnight, only seven men had been named. On the third day the Socialists contested the election of Kishi himself. In the end, Kishi won what had been in the bag from the beginning. Then he rushed his new ministers to the palace to be sworn in by the Emperor...
Since his Liberal Democrats had won the election so handily. Kishi was automatically the man for the Diet to name as Premier. But, having won, Kishi wanted to do things a bit differently from the past, when minority parties got a share of key Diet posts. With some justification, he accused the Socialists of using important committee chairmanships to sabotage legislation (they often did not show up for work, as a way of delaying action). Kishi, bent on responsible government under his own control, demanded that all 16 committee chairmen of the House of Representatives, and the Speaker...
...Since Kishi became premier a year ago. Sato has been giving him support, explaining that "to be a successful politician one must always be with the main current." His appointment last week caused the stock of Mitsubishi, one of Japan's monster combines, to rise. Sato has such close contacts with Japanese big business and such a private information service that his nickname is "Hayamimi' (Fast Ears...
...Premier Kishi, with big-business backing, is in no mood to tolerate Socialist monkey business, nor is he apt to be too tolerant of the intriguing that has gone on inside his own Cabinet and party. Standing in front of a row of potted plants, Kishi pointedly remarked to a reporter: "These plants were all selected by a master gardener, but some are not perfect under the surface. Who knows but there may be still two or three like that in my new Cabinet...