Word: fukuda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japanese. After all, even though he was a member of the prestigious Trilateral Commission, who really cared about a Georgia peanut farmer with the crazy ambition of running for President? One man who cared enough at least to chat informally with the virtually unknown American was Takeo Fukuda, at the time Japan's Deputy Premier. Carter is not one to forget; on Inauguration Day, his first call to a foreign leader was to Fukuda, who by then had become Japan's Premier...
Cooper lost no time in beginning to get that message across. On a visit to Tokyo shortly after his appointment, he called on Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda and expounded his views on the still soft global economy at a press conference. "We have been wasting resources in [lost] jobs and in underutilization of capital equipment," he said...
...first popular test of Fukuda's policies and of whether he has revived the L.D.P. will come in July, when the Japanese elect a new upper house. The L.D.P. majority there is now a razor-thin one seat, and the party may lose control-unless Fukuda by his actions regains some of that faded popularity...
...increasing exports. But both U.S. businessmen and the European Community have complained that underpriced Japanese goods are already flooding their markets (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). They demand that Tokyo sell less and import more. As a former Finance Minister and one of his country's leading economics experts, Fukuda is expected to increase government spending and provide businesses with low-interest loans...
...both a Moscow that is still seething because Tokyo allowed the U.S. to dismantle and examine the MiG-25 that a defecting Soviet airman flew to Japan in September, and a Peking miffed because negotiations for a Japanese-Chinese peace treaty have bogged down. It is unlikely, however, that Fukuda will take any new foreign policy initiatives until he has had the chance to size up the diplomacy of Jimmy Carter's Administration...