Word: mamoru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have been a better choice than the man who actually got the Defense Ministry post; Arata Sugihara, a bureaucrat-turned-politician who has egged on Hatoyama to more and more flirtation with the Communist powers. Washington was pleased, however, with the retention as Foreign Minister of one-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu, who signed Japan's surrender on the Missouri in 1945. Shigemitsu is a sober, careful man who can be counted on to restrain, as much as he can, Japan's overtures to Russia and Red China...
Discord in Tokyo. Not everyone thought the problem so simple. For the next two days before the Diet, the opposition hammered at Hatoyama's Foreign Minister, Mamoru Shigemitsu, demanding that he clarify the Premier's offhand statement. Shigemitsu, who signed the Japanese surrender aboard the Missouri and was afterwards purged, had been reassuring everybody that "Japan's place" lay within the U.S. alliance. Now he hedged. "The problem must be studied from the viewpoint of treaty conditions and actual reality," he said. "Japan has recognized the Formosa government. But the appearance on the mainland of a large...
...speckled Kuril Islands of Japan's northwestern shores, or the return, say, of 10,000 Japanese P.W.s still held in Soviet labor camps. And the Russians, as usual, could gain much by dangling such baubles without delivering them. Obeying Japan's new impulse to neutralism, Mamoru Shigemitsu commented that "there is need for a careful study of the sincerity of the Russian statement." Molotov's initiative, he added, was "a big step forward...
...conservative, a 71-year-old cripple named Ichiro Hatoyama, led a sizable walkout from the Liberal Party. Hatoyama once led the party, had to turn it over to Yoshida when purged as "undesirable" by Douglas MacArthur, and never got the leadership back. Hostilities deepened when Mamoru Shigemitsu, 65, a crippled ex-war criminal who signed the surrender aboard the U.S.S. Missouri, withdrew the support of his right-wing Progressive Party from Yoshida, leaving Yoshida with only 183 votes in the Lower House of the Diet. The two dissident forces combined to form a big, new, conservative "Japan Democratic Party," with...
...much was being done to boot him out of command. Though most of the noise was coming from the extreme left and right, the real threat lay among men of Yoshida's own conservative stripe. Men like Ichiro Hatoyama of Yoshida's own Liberal Party, and Mamoru Shigemitsu, leader of the rival and equally conservative Progressives, were talking last week of forming a conservative coalition during Yoshida's absence, to force him out on his return. But if this worried foxy Shigeru Yoshida, he did not show it. If he can come back from his trip with...