Word: boycotters
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...believed that Watson was the force behind recommendations that the U.S. boycott the Olympics and institute a grain embargo and restrictions on the export of high technology...
...private sector. For years Japan Inc. has had a one- dimensional foreign policy: what's good for Japanese exports is good for Japan. Since there were many times more customers for Toyota and Nippon Steel in the Arab and Islamic worlds than in Israel, Japan abided by the boycott...
...having trouble with both Israel and Japan, those two countries have had practically nothing to do with each other. Without ever admitting it was doing so, Japan has aided and abetted the Arabs in their 43- year-old economic boycott of Israel. The U.S., Canada and some countries in Western Europe have laws against companies' abiding by the boycott. The Japanese kept mumbling that they favored free trade, but that the "private sector" must make its own decisions on commercial grounds...
Israeli diplomats consider these moves to be modest and tentative but welcome nonetheless. American Jewish leaders and members of Congress have been lobbying hard for the shift. So, much more quietly, have some younger civil servants inside several Japanese ministries. They see their country's compliance with the boycott as symptomatic of the parochialism and selfishness that have until now marked Japan's definition of its role in the world...
...most of his senior deputies have done the same. During a meeting in California in April, President George Bush told Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu that the end of the gulf war "might be an opportunity for Japan to have closer relations with Israel." Kaifu agreed, adding that the Arab boycott was "undesirable." Vice President Dan Quayle, who met with Kaifu in Tokyo last week, pressed for more steps in the right direction...