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With an influential 26 Japan's Alliance Politics and Defence Production factional heritage stretching back through the Sato and Yoshida factional predecessors, the powerful Tanaka faction held a decisive sway over LDP leadership politics well beyond the formal period of Tanaka's premiership. The composition of the mainstream coalition oriented it towards greater independence in foreign and security policies, albeit within a context of a continued alignment with the United States. Although Tanaka drew substantial factional support from former Sato supporters, the longer-term factional legacy from Yoshida has been noted.

In May 1946 one of the earliest postwar opinion polls conducted in Japan indicated that 73 per cent of those polled believed the proscriptions of Article Nine to be necessary. 11 The outbreak of hostilities on the Korean peninsula in June 1950 increased popular Japanese unease over the intentions of the communist powers. A poll conducted in June 1951 indicated that 63 per cent of interviewees believed that the communists would invade Japan if US troops withdrew after the Peace Treaty was signed.

This change was reflected in Japan's diplomacy towards the PRC. Lukewarm support for US criticism of the PRC in its conflict with India in 1962, the Matsumura and Takasaki missions to Beijing in September and October 1962, the signing of a bilateral trade memorandum in November 1962, cabinet approval in August 1963 for a vinylon plant to be built in the PRC, and a Japanese trade fair in Beijing in October 1963 confirmed the Ikeda government's determination to undertake sustained efforts to pursue Japanese economic interests in China, despite mounting pressure from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations in Washington.

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