TOKYO -- Fumio Kishida's determination to overcome the odds and win election as prime minister echoes the resolve of Hayato Ikeda, a Japanese leader from the 1960s with whom he shares political and ...
SQUARE-JAWED Hayato Ikeda, 60, is a hard man with a yen and a free man with his tongue. Back in 1951, as Finance Minister under Premier Shigeru Yoshida, he stirred up a storm by suggesting that if ...
TOKYO Premier Hayato Ikeda solemnly rejected yesterday neutralism for Japan as a chimera which failed to take into account the realities of Japan's international role and the needs of her economy. In ...
In the process of preparing to write a book exploring Japan’s history and culture through various figures who appeared in it, ...