Word: tanaka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Jakarta had seen since the anti-Communist disturbances of 1967. The occasion for the violence this time, ironically enough, was neither the threat of externally supported subversion nor the advent of civil war; rather, it was the good-will visit of a friendly foreign leader, Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka...
...time he reached Jakarta on the last stop of his five-nation, eleven-day good-will mission to Southeast Asia, Tanaka had already encountered an embarrassing amount of hostility. His effigy had been burned in Bangkok (TIME, Jan. 21), and on the day of his departure from placid Kuala Lumpur, a handful of activists at the University of Malaysia had staged an auto-da-fe of a puppet labeled Tanaka. But the stop last week at Indonesia was the worst...
Ugly Scene. One reason that Tanaka's arrival was delayed until darkness was the announced intention of student groups to give him a fiery welcome. Ten students broke through the tight cordon and were caught on the airfield just before Tanaka's arrival. A powerful array of riot police and troops in battle dress saw to it that Indonesian President Suharto and his guest arrived on time at the white Dutch-colonial guesthouse in the spacious compound of the President's official residence. At that point hardly anyone could foresee that for the duration of his stay...
Smug Lecture. Tanaka's reply was somewhat evasive; he delivered a smug lecture about Japan's example of hard work and industrial expansion since World War II. He then told the students that in a three-hour meeting with Premier Sanya, he had offered to soften the terms of a $153 million loan and curb overly aggressive and ruthless private Japanese business practices through a new government agency, to be called The Economic Cooperation Ministry. None of this satisfied the students, who left the meeting threatening to "act against every Japanese in Thailand" unless the government acts...
...Tanaka's failure to mollify the Thai students does not augur well for the rest of his good-will mission in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. His first stop had been in Manila and had gone with deceptive smoothness. That was largely due to a state of martial law that prevented any anti-Japanese outbursts and the eagerness of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos for injections of more Japanese capital. But during the rest of his itinerary, Tanaka will be faced with the threat of more anti-Japanese demonstrations. Moreover, Tanaka can scarcely assure his Southeast Asian trading partners of more...