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...smiling, bespectacled little man in a baggy white suit and a battered Panama hat stepped unobtrusively off a silver Pan American airliner at the Honolulu airport one day last week. Leaning on his cane, Japanese Premier Shigeru Yoshida bowed and shook hands all around with the American greeters who towered above him, spoke politely about the "loyalty and bravery" of American-born Japanese, and cast no more than a sweeping glance at the skeletal cranes and hangars of Pearl Harbor. Then he took off again, heading for San Francisco to sign the formal peace between Japan and 51 powers...
More than 90% of Japan's 44 million voters turned out for municipal elections last week, chose approximately 7,000 mayors and 179,000 city and village assemblymen. Candidates backing Premier Shigeru Yoshida's conservative Democratic Liberal Party got 80% of the votes, Socialists 15%, other parties and independents 4½%. The Communist vote: less than half...
John Foster Dulles left Tokyo this week after laying a firm foundation for a Japanese peace treaty. In companion statements, Dulles and Premier Shigeru Yoshida declared Japan's political and military alignment with...
...Premier Shigeru Yoshida and the other Japanese politicians whom Dulles will see were ready for some close negotiating. The anti-Communist Japanese have little doubt about whose side they are on, but it was as plain as the peak of Mount Fuji that, in return for a pro-U.S. policy, Japan's statesmen intend to squeeze as much U.S. aid as they can out of any peace treaty...
...disturbed about the time it would take the U.S. to mobilize. With Russia and Red China facing them on the mainland, Japanese have started thinking about rearmament. Hisato Ichimada, governor of the Bank of Japan, recently said: "Rearmament is a question forced upon Japan by the international situation." Premier Shigeru Yoshida, who would like to use rearmament as a treaty bargaining point, last week cautiously added his agreement...