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...Ambitions. As the newly merged Liberal-Democratic Party held its first meeting last week, the talk was that Kishi had definitely settled on his candidate for new Prime Minister. He is Taketora (literally, Bamboo Tiger) Ogata, 67, ex-editor of Asahi, Japan's leading daily, and Deputy Prime Minister in the late Yoshida regime. Ogata is a stocky, round-faced man whose baggy eyes sometimes suggest a Buddha on a bender. His past includes several incidents of personal courage against Japanese militarists before the war. With Nobusuke Kishi behind him, Ogata is the front-runner for leadership...
This strategy has made Hatoyama's newborn Democrats the dominant party in Japan. Last week they won 185 of the 467 seats in the Diet. Yoshida's Liberals (now guided by Taketora Ogata) were reduced to 112 seats. With nowhere else to go but into coalition with their fellow conservatives. Ogata promptly announced that the Liberals would support Hatoyama. Hatoyama may not be in charge for long, but he talks confidently of carrying on for two years. Out of this alliance may come one strong, conservative party, and with Right and Left Socialists also talking merger...
Ichiro Hatoyama had good cause for elation. Last week the big Kyodo news agency polled voters and confirmed the Asahi verdict: 40.8% for Hatoyama; 18% for Taketora Ogata, successor to the fallen Shigeru Yoshida as head of the conservative Liberal Party; 14% for Mosaburo Suzuki of the left-wing (Bevanite) Socialists; 12.5% for Jotaro Kawakami of the moderate, right-wing Socialists. In all, more than 56% of the voters expected that Hatoyama would...
Shigeru Yoshida might yet prove able to outsmart his opponents. He could dissolve the Diet and force a new general election. He might resign in favor of Taketora Ogata, a trusted conservative junior ("my Eden"), and watch matters from the sidelines. His enemies, confident that they can at last strike him down, are nonetheless warily respectful of the old man's political skill...
...their trade. He had studied painting in London, gone to To kyo at 21 to teach it. "I had no idea of taking up pottery," he recalls, "but in Japan I fell in with people who had. I chased around until I got hold of this old man, Ogata Kenzan, who was sixth in succession of a great line of potters. I liked him at first go-off, and asked if I could be his student...