Word: fumimaro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aimed at defusing tense trade troubles between the two countries. Nakasone fully understood the importance of the trip, which he grandly described as the "most important journey ever made to Washington by a Japanese Prime Minister." As he jetted toward Washington, the Prime Minister read a book about Prince Fumimaro Konoe, Japan's pre-World War II leader. At one point he put the book down and mused out loud that a Konoe- Roosevelt summit might have prevented the Pacific...