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...rivals for the premiership, cool, conservative Eisaku Sato is the stronger. A career bureaucrat, he is backed by his brother, ex-Premier Nobusuke Kishi (who changed his last name when he was adopted into the samurai family of his wife), as well as by another influential ex-Premier, Shigeru Yoshida; Sato served effectively in both their administrations. A candidate for party president in the Conservative-Liberal elections last July, Sato lost by only ten votes to Ikeda, who had appointed him to the key Ministry of Trade and Commerce. Sato subscribes to Ikeda's policies, although he favors...
...policy of "patience and tolerance," promised a dynamic regime that would fight for the return of the Kuril Islands from Russia and the Ryukyus (which include Okinawa) from the U.S.; and 2) Aiichiro Fujiyama, a silver-haired sugar baron who had served as former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi's Foreign Minister and as party coordinator under Ikeda...
Thick-browed and youthful-looking at 61. Sato is junior member of a Kennedy-style brother act. From 1957 to 1960, Older Brother Nobusuke Kishi,* was Prime Minister. Sato served as his finance minister and chief troubleshooter among big businessmen. Though there was resentful talk of a Kishi dynasty, it soon died down, and before long the country took it for granted that eventually Sato would become Prime Minister too. When the wild, leftist-backed riots that forced Dwight Eisenhower to cancel his visit to Japan in 1960 also forced Kishi to resign prematurely, the job went to Trade Minister...
...strings. Sato, who controls 100 Diet members of the governing Liberal-Democratic Party, pledged their votes to Ikeda. Kishi did the same with his faction. Though Ikeda, 62, would like to stick around to carry through his ambitious plan to double Japan's national income by 1970, there is now rising pressure for him to step aside as early as next spring, and he may feel obliged to repay his debt to Sato...
This time the issue was Premier Hayato Ikeda's political-violence prevention bill, designed to prevent the kind of mob violence that last year forced Ikeda's predecessor, Premier Nobusuke Kishi, to cancel a projected visit from former President Dwight Eisenhower and, subsequently, brought Kishi's own resignation. Ironically, the bill was first urged on the government by the Socialists themselves, who took alarm when Socialist Party Chairman Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated by a fanatic right-wing student...