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Pain Put Ikeda In Spotlight
Hayato Ikeda, Japan's postwar election winner, rose from personal suffering to lead as prime minister. Once a wealthy youth with a wine and sake background he cured a skin disease through Buddhist pilgrimages, then pursued economic reforms and wary diplomacy with the United States and China.
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John Roderick
Tokyo
Hayato Ikeda
Japan
Kyoto
Utsunomiya
Shikoku
Takeo
Shigeru Yoshida
Nobusuke Kishi
United States
Ikeda
Butkeda
Kishi
Umer Kishi
China
West