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Grace Fang (Sharon Iwai), Leo's wife, lives a stereotypically Chinese-American life, doing aerobics at the health club and coming home to make noodle lo mein. Mrs. Chao, on the other hand, enjoys a close rapport with her daughter Lili (Li QinQin) and status as the wife of a high-ranking party official...
...Akira Iwai, 38, secretary-general of Sohyo, a federation of 22 left-wing labor unions with a membership of 3,500,000. On finishing junior high school, handsome, hard-driving Iwai worked as a grease monkey on the Japanese National Railways. After the war. he first won the leadership of a youth section of the union, then became a hard-boiled strategist in a series of railway strikes. Nine of the 22 Sohyo unions -including the railroaders-are run by "secret" Communists, and they supply much of the marching manpower in the blocks-long demonstrations. Iwai's boys also...
...Hagerty. Few of the marchers knew or cared that the new treaty actually increases Japanese control over U.S. bases (TIME, June 6). They were mainly out to get Kishi by whatever means. Nobody professed hatred for Eisenhower, but Sohyo Secretary General Akira Iwai warned: "If he comes at this time, the anti-Kishi feeling will be directed at him as well." When Presidential Press Secretary James Hagerty arrives to work out advance arrangements, added Iwai, "We will make him the target of a May Day-scale demonstration to persuade him that the trip be canceled." But, as of early this...