Word: tanzan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Japan's lean little Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and the U.S.'s bulky rangy Secretary of State John Foster Dulles have one thing very much in common: they both like to travel. In the eleven months since he took over the premiership from aging, ailing Tanzan Isibashi, Kishi has set a dizzying pace. Last May he took off for a tour of six Southeastern Asian nations, followed up with a state visit to Washington. Last week Kishi was in the air again, this time on a tour of eight nations, including Australia and the Philippines...
...from which: 1) Japan's two big feuding conservative parties, the Liberals and the Democrats, were merged into the gigantic Liberal-Democratic Party and ranged in solid opposition to the Socialists and Communists; and 2) Kishi himself emerged last winter as Foreign Minister under 72-year-old Premier Tanzan Ishibashi. Four months ago, Nobusuke Kishi became his country's Premier (and his own Foreign Minister) when Ishibashi resigned because of bad health...
Only two months have passed since enfeebled, 73-year-old Ichiro Hatoyama stepped down from the premiership of Japan and gave way to a presumably healthier 72-year-old Tanzan Ishibashi, who boasted, "I can eat and drink anything." But for exactly one-half of the time Prime Minister Ishibashi has been in office, he has been laid up with bronchial pneumonia. Last week, after elbowing their way through a crowd of spectators jamming the garden and the street outside, four doctors politely took off their shoes and entered the sick Premier's Tokyo home to make an official...
That night, as a single light shone from his bedroom window out on the deserted street, Tanzan Ishibashi penned his resignation. "I am sorry," he wrote, "that I have inconvenienced everyone...
This week there were signs that the push forward was stronger than many Japanese had realized. Since occupation's end many conservative groups have been agitating for the revival of Foundation Day. Last week Prime Minister Tanzan Ishibashi's ruling Liberal-Democratic Party proposed a bill in the current Diet session which would in effect revive Foundation Day. And at Kashihara Shrine near Nara, some 10,000 elderly Japanese streamed through the great wooden-pillared gateway to the inner shrine...