New Prime Minister
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 1964 University Daily Kansan
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Japan's Policies to Continue
Bv Robert Henry
Although Japan has just changed prime ministers, it does not appear that there will be any great change in Japanese domestic or foreign policy, according to three KU men with knowledge of Japan.
The change in Japanese government came over the weekend when Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda resigned because of poor health and was succeeded by Eisaku Sato. Sato's election came on a near two-thirds vote by the bicameral parliament. This majority indicates the control which Ikeda's and Sato's Liberal Democratic party holds in parliament.
Toshihiko Sato, acting assistant instructor of East Asia area studies and Oriental language and literature, said, "I don't think there will be any change in Japanese foreign policy—Japan already knows how to survive in the world."
HE QUALIFIED HIS statement somewhat by saying that expanded trade with Communist China might occur, but that would result only if Japanese trade with free nations is not enough for Japan to survive. Sato said he is not related to Prime Minister Sato. "The name Sato in Japan is very common, something like Smith and Jones in the United States," he said.
Continuing the same line of thinking, Yusuke Kawarabayashi, Kyoto, Japan, graduate student, said the new prime minister is considered to be pro-western. "I don't think there will be any change in domestic or foreign policy," he said.
KAWARABAYASI POINTED out that Prime Minister Sato is the
Survey Cites KU Oil Execs
KU is among the top ten schools in the nation in production of top-level management for the 25 largest oil companies, according to a survey by the Oil & Gas News.
A survey of 328 chairmen, presidents and vice-presidents showed 382 college degrees, while nine men had ended their formal educations with high school. Nineteen hold doctorate degrees.
Besides KU, the favored universities for high level petroleum management are: Oklahoma, Texas, California, Harvard, Princeton, Southern California, Stanford, Texas A&M and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Oil & Gas News found that most managers felt the ideal education for a future oil executive would be a bachelor's degree in engineering and a master's in business administration.
One company head thought a broad liberal arts education would be excellent background for top management but there was no way to bring such graduates up through the lower levels of oil company operations.
Another said he had to have men with technical degrees and he sought engineers interested in people. "I look for the engineer who has been active in campus activities," he said.
Thailand Work To Be Topic
Slides and discussion on "The Other Bridge Over the River Kwai" will be presented at tomorrow's meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Allen Acheson, executive vicepresident of Black and Veach, International Consulting Engineers, will speak to the group after a dinner at 6:30 p.m. in the Kansas room of the Kansas Union.
Acheson spent two years in Thailand as a project engineer for the Yanhee Electric Authority in Bangkok, Thailand. He will be discussing the economics and engineering problems of the Thailand project.
Attending the meeting will be students of the KU and K-State A.S.M.E. and professional engineers from the Kansas City chapter of the A.S.M.E.
brother of former Prime Minister Nobuske Kishi, who served from 1957 to 1960. Kishi and Sato have different last names because of a Japanese custom which permits a man to adopt his wife's maiden name if she does not have brothers. This permits a continuation of the wife's maiden name.
Regarding the possibility of increased trade with Communist China, Kawarabayashi said there is a trend toward more trade, but his is in "peaceful goods." He expects this trend to continue, but he does not think that Prime Minister Sato will speed-up the trend.
Kawarabayashi said he did not look for any major changes in the cabinet under the new prime minister. "There might be a change in a relatively unimportant post, but such a change would be made only to make the cabinet different from Ikeda's," he said.
ASKED TO COMPARE Sato with his brother, Kishi, Kawarabayashi and Sato is more conservative, and is a a result he will not have as much trouble with unrest in Japan is did Kishi. Prime Minister Kishi designed in 1960 following riots caused by what the rioters called a too pro-western policy, he said.
Klaus Pringsheim, acting professor of East Asian area studies, called the change in Japanese government "an insignificant change."
"By background, education, and experience in government, Prime Minister Sato is uniquely qualified." Prof. Pringsheim said. "In addition to being the brother of Kishi, Sato was a schoolmate of Ikeda, and Ikeda personally had a hand in selecting Sato as his successor." Prof. Pringsheim thinks that Sato's policies will be a continuation of current policy.
PRIME MINISTER Sato will be faced with the same problems which Ikeda faced—trade relations with Communist China, Japanese self-deense, the desire by some for a revised Japanese constitution, and how to maintain the Liberal Democratic majority in parliament, Pringsheim said.
The fact that Sato is an economist might indicate a future change in Asian economies, Prof. Pringsheim said that Sato has been very interested in the European Common Market, and as a result, he may be interested in an eventual Asian common market.
Increased Japanese trade with Communist China is not likely on a large scale, he said. Japan would like to increase trade in certain products, but Communist China will not trade these items—iron, coal, cotton, and food. "Communist China
would rather use the possibility of increased trade with Japan as a political weapon, and they do not want to lose this weapon by opening up trade." Prof. Pringsheim said.
Prof. Pringsheim said Sato's political future looks to be on a solid foundation with his party commanding a near two-thirds majority in parliament. If there is a danger to Sato, it is more likely to be found in factionalism within his own Liberal Democratic party, he said.
Research Aid Doubles Here
Grants and contracts for research and associated training projects are coming to KU at a rate twice as great as that of one year ago, William J. Argersinger Jr., associate dean of faculties for research said.
Argersinger does not expect this spectacular rate of growth to be maintained throughout the year because of the unusual number of grants received in the first quarter.
During the first quarter of the fiscal year, which began July 1, the University and its associated Center for Research in Engineering Science received grants and contracts totaling $1,667,770, compared with $824,-350 in the first quarter of 1963.
Support has come from 16 different sources, including agencies of the federal government, private corporations, and philanthropic organizations. Research is being supported in 23 different schools, departments and divisions.
The largest single grants have come to the Center for Research in Engineering Sciences, $231,000 from the National Aeronauties and Space Administration for radar studies; to the University, $200,000 from the National Science Foundation for support of the expanded Computation Center; to the University, $143,-000 from NASA for a predoctoral training program in space-related sciences and engineering; and to the Center for Research in Engineering Science, $100,000 from NASA for interdisciplinary studies in space science.
Advancement Made
Ronald W. Tobin, assistant professor of romance languages, has been appointed associate chairman of that department.
Prof. Tobin, now in his second year at KU, is a specialist in French language and literature. He will assist. Cyrus DeCoster, chairman, in the administration of the romance languages department which is one of the largest in the University.
Learn if you are eligible for the Navy Officer Candidate School
NAVY INFORMATION TEAM WILL BE TESTING AND INTERVIEWING AT THE KANSAS UNION
From Monday, Nov. 9 - Friday, Nov.13 ARE YOU ELIGIBLE?
KU-Y Sponsors Project For Revue. Model UN
The KU-Y is starting a new program to prepare freshmen for participation in Rock Chalk and Model U.N.
THE FOLLIES is a miniature Rock Chalk which will be presented the last weekend in April. It will be a presentation of skits and talent by freshman living groups or individual groups who wish to compete for prizes.
The KU-Y Freshman Program is under the chairmanship of Jim Perkins, Prairie Village sophomore, and Christy Lee, Florissant, Mo., sophomore.
The freshman program is divided into three committees: follies, model senate, and Sunday discussion coffee hour.
Perkins said, "It will be publicized later this year to the freshman living groups. We will have tryouts for skits.
Co-chairmen of the follies are Carol Swaim, Manhattan freshman, and Randy Jacobs, Leawood freshman.
"The purpose of the model senate is to acquaint the freshmen with democratic proceedings and important issues," Perkins said. "The freshmen participating will discuss and debate bills before they vote on them. The results are sent to our congressman."
Alum Grant Awarded
The Dickinson County $250 alumni scholarship to the University of Kansas is held in the 1964-65 school year by John M. McCulloh, Abilene senior.
PERKINS SAID the freshmen who will be the senators for the model Senate will divide into committees and draw up their own bills. He said the students would go to political science teachers for advice. Twenty-seven bills were drawn up by last year's Model Senate.
Perkins said steering committees were being set up for the model senate. He said there is a need for more freshmen on the steering committee.
The discussion coffee hour meets at 3:30 p.m. every Sunday in the Union. The room reserved for the group will be posted on the bulletin board inside the front door of the Kansas Union.
Tom Moore, director of the KU-Y, said the purpose of the discussion group is to meet informally with members of the Kansas University faculty. There will be no set topic to be discussed. The students will be encouraged to bring up any subject.
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