Word: aso
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pacific Ring of Fire," vulnerable as always to earthquakes and typhoons, virtually unarmed, without any significant natural resources, dependent on the outside world for oil and food, the Japanese have a hard time seeing themselves as any kind of threat. "In our history of 2,000 years," says Taro Aso, a member of the Japanese parliament, "this is the first time that the Japanese have not had to worry about poverty. We are nouveau riche, a nation of farmers a short tune ago. It is difficult to accept international responsibilities when you have an inferiority complex...
ENGAGED. Prince Tomohito, 34, Oxford-educated son of Japan's Prince Mikasa, the youngest brother of Emperor Hirohito; and Nobuko Aso, 25, a Tokyo English teacher whose grandfather, Shigeru Yoshida, was his country's first elected postwar Prime Minister. The Council of Imperial Household Affairs had to approve the marriage (probably in October) of the shy commoner and the affable prince, whose first proposal seven years ago was turned down because of her age. Her description of her fiancé: "warm-hearted...