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Miki's strongest challenger is his harshest critic, former Deputy Premier Takeo Fukuda, 71, who has lined up powerful backing from among the L.D.P.'s half-dozen factions in a bid to succeed Miki. Their rivalry became so bitter that they maintained separate national headquarters during the three-week campaign and kept up a running feud that badly damaged L.D.P. prospects. One possible compromise choice is Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira. Miki is genuinely convinced that radical reforms are needed to refurbish the L.D.P.'s image. His diagnosis: "The party caused its own defeat because we failed...
Ezra R. Vogel, director of the East Asian Center and professor of Sociology, said Miki's probable replacement, Takeo Fukuda, has greater party support than Miki but will not represent a major policy change...
...year, U.S. and Japanese diplomats and security officials have worked over travel and protocol details that now pack a book two inches thick. The imperial couple will have plenty of help keeping to the schedule. They will be trailed by a retinue of 22, headed by Deputy Premier Takeo Fukuda and including the imperial household's grand steward, grand chamberlain, grand master of cerermonies and a covey of ladies in waiting...
Since Japan nonetheless operates by a consensus system, Fukuda needs cooperation from businessmen and unions to make his program of economic transformation work. Despite some grumbling, he seems to be getting it. Japanese workers won a 32.9% across-the-board pay increase last year but agreed to a raise of only 14% this spring. The awesome force of the Japanese work ethic is still evident. Last year hundreds of thousands of employees, protected by lifetime job guarantees, were paid but told not to come to work. Many responded by voluntarily cleaning factories or popping into retail stores to help sell...
Asian Dependent. Fukuda is under more pressure abroad, from nations that would like to see the world's third largest economy pumped up faster so that the Japanese can buy more foreign products. At a recent meeting of the 24-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, Japan was criticized indirectly for being overly preoccupied with its domestic economy to the detriment of other Asian nations; those countries have grown dependent on Japanese growth for their own prosperity. Fukuda recognizes that Japan can ill afford beggar-thy-neighbor policies. "From now on, we all have to cooperate...