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...violence that has recently plagued Japanese politics. A rabble-rouser who never tired of praising Red China, or of calling the U.S. "the common enemy of China and Japan," Asanuma organized the snake-dancing demonstrations that kept President Eisenhower away from Japan last June. Since then, ex-Premier Nobusuke Kishi and Socialist Jotaro Kawakami have both been stabbed by fanatics. This did not deter the Socialists from launching further violent demonstrations. Crying "Down with Ikeda," left-wing Zengakuren students charged police barricades at the Diet, began their ritualistic snake dance before the Premier's official residence...
...fever that stirred the howling rioters last June in Japan was in large part the handiwork of the Japanese press with its sustained attacks upon Premier Nobusuke Kishi and the U.S.-Japanese security treaty. But when it was suggested that the press, conservatively owned but heavily infiltrated by leftists, had played a major part in keeping President Eisenhower out of Japan and bringing down Kishi, Japanese publishers angrily denied all. It remained, last week, for Japan's leftist journalists themselves to take credit where credit seemed...
Briefly speaking, the series of and riots during the months of May and began when the Kishi cabinet forced the of the Mutual Security Act on May 19, the attendance of the members of the , Socialist Party. Before then, the with the United States had been debated Diet committee, but the government had only given evasive and vague answers to the pertinent questions regarding what many people considered the most important treaty Japan was ever to sign after the war. On May 19, the Socialists were apprised of the intention of the government to have the treaty passed immediately...
...favored it, and most of those who had remained indifferent. From this time on, quite abruptly, the anti-government program widened its base to embrace, besides opposition to the treaty, the questions of the "preservation of democracy," the "normalization of parliamentary politics," and, as a concomitant to the anti-Kishi slogans, the movement against Eisenhower's visit. In this sense, a purely partisan, leftist movement was converted into a city-centered mass movement against the allegedly anti-parliamentarian attitude of the Kishi cabinet. The main argument was that the government had refused to deliberate further on the treaty...
...attempts made on eminent political figures since last June. The first assassin, attacking the life of a moderate Socialist leader, had no relations with a rightist group, and except for his hatred of the Zengakuren, he committed his act in a schizophrenic fit. The second attacker, aiming at Kishi, had no intention of killing him, but wanted merely to punish the prime minister for having "clumsily handled the problems of the Liberal Democratic Party." The third incident differed from the previous two in that the youth had undertaken the act out of a genuine political conviction. Obviously, the governmental party...