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...Bank of Japan. In 1945 he became a vice-governor of the bank, a fact which put him on MacArthur's purge list. He was depurged in 1950. Araki tried to turn down the Washington appointment on the ground that he was not a diplomat, but Premier Yoshida insisted that Araki's financial experience was required in the main business of the embassy: straightening out Japan's debt to the U.S. and arranging for loans from the U.S. Government...
Japanese police apparently made little effort to stop the mobs. Reischauer said that this may have been a move by the Yoshida government to influence the passage of new anti-riot legislation: "It is possible that the government made little effort to stop the demonstrations because they saw how the riots would boost their law-making efforts...
John Foster Dulles' blueprint for peace with Japan lacked a cornerstone: Japan's future relations with her old enemy China. Since Britain and the U.S. could not agree whether China meant Peking or Formosa, the decision was left to Japan. Last week Japan's Premier Shigeru Yoshida made known his choice. In a letter to Dulles, he wrote that Japan wants "a treaty which will re-establish normal relations" with Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government. As for Red China: "The Japanese government has no intention to conclude a bilateral treaty with the Communist regime...
Many a Tokyo diplomat, particularly those from China, Indonesia and the Philippines, had paused even while enjoying' his bath, to ask how a country so impoverished that it could not pay reparations could still afford such a bathtub. Their questions finally reached Premier Yoshida...
After 17 days of debate and deliberation, Japan's House of Representatives last week ratified the peace treaty which Premier Yoshida signed at San Francisco in September. The vote was overwhelming: 307 to 47. The companion security treaty with the U.S. (permitting U.S. bases and garrisons in Japan) was less enthusiastically endorsed, 289 to 71. Yoshida made no attempt to steamroll the treaties through, and in fact had no need to. Among the opponents: all 22 Communists in the House...