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...Premier's condition has been consistently played down by his associates, but the Liberal-Democrats were ready and waiting with a successor whose rise to premiership would be no surprise. Second-runner by only seven votes to Ishibashi when he became Premier, 60-year-old Foreign Minister Nobusuke Kishi has had the official title Acting Temporary Prime Minister throughout Ishibashi's illness. A business tycoon (steel, chemicals), he has been a shrewd backstage manipulator in Japanese politics since long before Pearl Harbor. In the early days of Japan's burgeoning Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...that he was not opposed to U.S. policy in general but only to U.S. Army economic decrees, Ishibashi nevertheless promised to observe the embargo on shipments of strategic goods to Red China. He then offered the Foreign Ministry to his chief Liberal-Democratic rival for the premiership, conservative Nobusuke Kishi, 60, onetime economic czar of Manchuria, one of whose electoral handicaps was the fact that he was a member of the Tojo Cabinet at the time of Pearl Harbor...
Three candidates for the succession, all hale and heartily conservative but not a great deal younger than Hatoyama, presented themselves: Nobusuke Kishi, 60, the party's crafty, pushing secretary-general; Mitsujiro Ishii, 67, its astute planning chairman; and Tanzan Ishibashi, 72, oaken-faced Minister of International Trade and Industry. With no real dispute about policy between them, all vied in vowing to "clean up the party and restore ethics," and boasted of their health. Kishi pointed out that he was the youngest; Ishibashi crowed that "I can eat and drink anything," and that he sleeps well. Amidst reports...
...first ballot Kishi was way out front, and Ishii, finishing third, was automatically eliminated. On the second ballot Ishii threw his strength to Ishibashi, and it was enough to give Ishibashi a narrow victory over Kishi...
...Kishi the kuromaku is beginning to show signs of restlessness. Kishi considers himself a leader of the younger conservatives (he is 59), and believes that they "sooner or later" must take over from the old conservatives. The cast is beginning to suspect that the sceneshifter has been struck with a sudden yearning to play the lead himself...