Word: shimbun
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communists Embarrassed. Japan's emotional ban-the-bombers suffered less schizophrenia about who was to blame, though the illusion of moral influence still persisted in spots: the conservative Nihon Keizai Shimbun wistfully editorialized that "our fondest hope is for the U.S. to reconsider its decision on resumption, and by so doing compel Russia to follow suit." But even Zengakuren, the extreme leftist student organization whose screaming mobs forced President Eisenhower to cancel his trip to Japan a year ago, turned about and labeled the Russian decision "Stalinist power diplomacy," and began gathering a nationwide petition of protest signatures...
...offer, at week's end there were sure signs that Mikoyan's tough talk had gone too far. Japan's normally effete press bristled with outrage; virtually every major newspaper attacked Mikoyan's meddling. Headlined one: JAPAN GETS RUN-AROUND FROM ANASTAS. Tokyo's Shimbun warned that Mikoyan's "parrotings of repeated threats by Premier Khrushchev" were no way to "make any sales." In a slap at a visiting statesman that was unprecedented for the polite Japanese, Ikeda's party issued a statement branding Mikoyan's threats as an "interference in Japan...
...Socialist Eda insisted that it was he, not Ikeda, who was just like Kennedy -"flexible and progressive." In all the excitement. Eda seemingly had forgotten his party's role in the "Ike, stay home" riots as well as the fact, tartly pointed out by Tokyo's Sankei Shimbun, that, unlike many of his Japanese admirers. "Mr. Kennedy is neither a socialist nor a Communist, neither pro-Russian nor neutralist...
...parade of Japanese businessmen and politicians seeking a new Tokyo-Peking accommodation. But the parade never took place. Instead, even those Japanese newspapers that had sympathized with the June riots against Kishi proceeded to lambaste the Chinese delegation for "intervention in Japan's domestic affairs." Snapped Tokyo Shimbun: "The June demonstrations were manifestations of the people's anger against the Kishi Cabinet, not against Eisenhower. This Chinese delegation was expected to improve Japan-Peking relations. Instead, it has aggravated them...
...successful, to seek a special session of the U.N." Mansfield added that if the Russians did not bow to the protest. President Eisenhower should reconsider his decision to attend the mid-May summit meeting in Paris with Russia's Khrushchev. In Japan, Tokyo's Sankei Jiji Shimbun key-noted: "Russia's shooting rockets into Britain's and America's sphere makes one dubious about notions that the cold war is melting." In Hong Kong, the Communist Ta Kung Pao blazoned a Red rocket across its front page and rejoiced: "The harder the U.S. tries...