Word: ohira
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impose with guns their "Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" on the helpless nations of Southeast Asia. Last week, while most of the world's eyes were trained on Europe's faltering Common Market, the Japanese were again swarming over Asia, and in Tokyo Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira was again talking of co-prosperity. Today's invaders are briefcase brigades of Japanese businessmen with funds to invest in local industries and squads of technicians offering help for every venture from building dams to making watches. In 1963 the Japanese really mean-and badly need-genuine co-prosperity...
Forgotten Hatred. Addressing a Tokyo meeting of the seven-nation Asian Productivity Organization last week. Foreign Minister Ohira put this drive in idealistic terms: "Asian prosperity is indispensable for the establishment of world peace.'' But wily Toshiba Electric Chairman Taizo Ishizaka. 76. puts his finger on a more immediate reason why Japan should help its neighbors. "Regional economic systems are the wave of the future,'' he says. "It is natural, therefore, that Japan should be interested in strengthening economic ties with her Asian neighbors." Hopelessly isolated from joining any of the world's common markets...