Eisaku Sato was Asia’s first winner of the Prize.
Japan’s Prime Minister from 1960, he’d used his position
To encourage peace treaties with other Asian nations
And to open new global trade routes and trading ties.
In this way, he felt, the greatest leaps would be made
Toward normalization of relations, through modern trade.
Sato reminded us Japan was the sole victim
Of a nuclear attack and his policy became
That Japan would not build up such weapons
But with friendship between nations create a new frame.
“The attainment of peace” could be “something very ordinary” –
When each family can live “without fear” and with “hope,”
Devoted to “creative and constructive” achievements. Here, see,
Were the culturally “essential” requirements for Peace’s scope.
June Edvenson 