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Smilingly acknowledging the banzais of his welcomers, Japan's Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi returned to Tokyo last week from a six-nation tour of Southeast Asia. Then he went off to the pines and waterfalls of a mountain resort to prepare himself for a more crucial assignment, his state visit to the U.S. next week...
...Kishi is a Japanese leader of whom the U.S. is going to be hearing a lot. A staunch conservative, he is the first postwar Japanese Premier whose political record (which includes a three-year stretch in Tokyo's Sugamo Prison as a war criminal) does not permit his opponents to accuse him of being a puppet...
...four months since he assumed the premiership, Kishi has refused to be scared by left-wing Japanese political attacks against U.S. bases in Okinawa, but at the same time has made it clear that he thinks the U.S. should relinquish some of its control over Okinawa's civil administration. He has stoutly opposed both the U.S. and Russian refusal to halt H-bomb tests, but he has gone publicly and vigorously on record in favor of a common front against both Russian and Chinese Communism...
...from its "natural" markets on the Chinese mainland, Japan carries an unfavorable trade balance of more than half a billion dollars, made up in part by current U.S. "special procurements" in Japan but ultimately solvable only by finding new markets for Japan's growing and efficient industries. As Kishi put it: "Without prosperity in Asia, there is no prosperity for Japan." Kishi talked grandly of Japan's "capacity to extend assistance" to Southeast Asia, but Japan has in fact little capital to export...
Serious obstacles complicated Kishi's mission. As one Singhalese put it on the eve of his arrival in Colombo: "We remain wary of Japan's superiority complex toward other Asians." As for India, it is unhappy ovep the way Japan is selling cheap copies of Madras cottons and squeezing India out of the textile market in East Africa and Ceylon. In addition, Jawaharlal Nehru could hardly be expected to welcome a challenger to his dream of being leader of Free Asia. When Kishi set down last week in New Delhi, wearing a black wool suit, the temperature...