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Impulse & Imperialism. In Tokyo several years ago, Hatoyama and Yoshida got into a venomous conversation. "Do you really want to be Premier so much?" asked Hatoyama. "I don't want to be Premier; you're the one who does," answered Yoshida. They understood one another perfectly...
...last week, Japan's right-wing conservatives and Socialists ganged up against Yoshida in unnatural alliance. "It is hereby resolved," they moved, "that the House of Representatives does not trust the Yoshida Cabinet. It has continued, without definite objectives, the maladministration of the Occupation; it has indulged in secret diplomacy; it has blundered in economic policies at home. Public sentiment has become nauseated . . . and voices clamor for change." This coalition of right and left could muster a clear majority: 120 conservative "Japan Democrats" and 135 Socialists v. 185 for Premier Yoshida's conservative Liberal Party...
Around a table where chrysanthemums were set in a Chinese vase, the Yoshida Liberals brooded and concluded that defeat was sure. At 1 p.m. on the 13th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, the Liberal Party made its decision: to resign before a vote. It remained solely thereafter to inform Shigeru Yoshida, and to lay the hara-kiri knife of resignation before him. The party's chosen emissary for this work, a hawk-faced man, turned pale at the prospect of facing the old autocrat, but complied...
...Purged. The following day another old man, a friend turned enemy, took Yoshida's place as Premier of Japan. Ichiro Hatoyama, 71, crippled from a stroke, hobbled through strewn flashbulbs to an inner room of the Diet, where he faced the press. "I would like to awaken the people," he said, "to a deeper, more serious sense of their independence as a nation ... I intend to institute a careful review of the laws made under the Occupation, upholding those with merits, and discarding those with demerits...
...Socialists are expected to make considerable gains) before the end of March. So Hatoyama can run little more than a caretaker government. At best, for several critical months there can be no real stability in Japan. At worst. Hatoyama and Shigemitsu may set Japan moving farther and farther from Yoshida's pro-Americanism, more and more towards neutralism...