ABSTRACT
After Kishi had been driven from power, the next cabinet was formed by the Finance Ministry bureaucrat Dceda Hayato, adopting a conciliatory stance with his motto "tolerance and patience." The antitreaty movement, which lasted over a year and had been the largest of the postwar period, had taught that the hard-line posture of the Kishi cabinet would no longer work politically. In the summer of 1959, a solution to the Miike strike, which had started with notifications of mass dismissals at the Mitsui Coal Mines, became the Ikeda cabinet's first priority. The Japanese economy, then in the midst of high economic growth, was proceeding to shift from coal to oil in an "energy revolution." Small- and medium-scale collieries were being forced to close down one after another, and even large mining firms were being forced to reorganize themselves, dismissing workers en masse and introducing new technology.
