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Refusal to Appear. The take-off had taken a long time in coming-since June, in fact, when Yoshida was originally scheduled to depart but was held back by a rousing brawl in the quaintly violent Japanese Diet. The quarrel was still on last week, much of it over Premier Yoshida, his independent and often highhanded conduct, his refusal to appear before a committee investigating reports of large-scale bribery involving Yoshida's administration and shipping interests. Some of his opponents paraded the streets and demonstrated before the Premier's house to prevent his departure, but Yoshida felt...
Premier Shigeru Yoshida, a barnacle-encrusted politician of 76, packed his beloved haori, hakama and tabi (ceremonial jacket, loose pants, split-toed white socks), put on his dark pin-stripe suit and wing collar, and whisked out to Tokyo's airport this week to begin a grand tour of North America and Europe...
Reporters tried to draw him out on local questions, but brusque old Yoshida refused even to talk about the cries, recriminations and charges that were exploding around him. "You may entertain deep anxiety, but I do not," he declared. Next day, with three "banzais" from a small band of government functionaries, the Premier took...
...been a man of iron. Critics call him malicious, contemptuous, autocratic. Even his admirers sometimes agree-adding, however, that he can be witty, urbane and charming. Recently, a top U.S. diplomat was asked: "Whom do you regard as the five most influential men in Japan?" The answer: "Yoshida, Yoshida, Yoshida, Yoshida and Yoshida...
...Rarely would a politician so intent on staying in power dare to leave home at a time when so much was being done to boot him out of command. Though most of the noise was coming from the extreme left and right, the real threat lay among men of Yoshida's own conservative stripe. Men like Ichiro Hatoyama of Yoshida's own Liberal Party, and Mamoru Shigemitsu, leader of the rival and equally conservative Progressives, were talking last week of forming a conservative coalition during Yoshida's absence, to force him out on his return...