Word: shigeru
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June 1, however, Premier Shigeru Yoshida's Democratic Liberal Party government made a strong bid to steal the Communists' thunder. In a twelve-page note, the government gave a friendly history of the U.S. occupation, then announced that Japan was anxious to make a separate peace with any one or more of the powers with which it was still technically at war. The clear implication was that if the Western Allies and Russia could not agree on treaty terms, Japan would make peace with the West alone...