Word: hashimoto
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...tell. On the agenda are some tough issues for Clinton, including debate on NATO expansion and how to integrate Russia more fully in the global economy. The issue of America's ballooning trade deficit with Japan will be taken up immediately, with Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto holding a one-on-one in advance of Friday's kickoff. In a bit of surprising news on the Japanese front, the Administration announced an agreement with Japan that will allow the U.S. greater input in Hashimoto's attempt to deregulate a number of his nation's industries, including telecommunications. Among...
...staged elaborate maneuvers underneath. Armored personnel carried rolled by, and as always, all gun barrels were trained ominously on the residence. Japan's permission is needed for any attack on the compound. But Tokyo worries where the steadily intensifying displays will lead. Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto had asked the Peruvian government "not to go too far. Not thinking of the hostages' mental state may have an adverse effect." But such words of pathos seemed to hold sway neither over the police nor the rebels inside, who once again warned police away with a spray of gunfire...
...curtail the power of the ministries. "Japan's political dynamism is such that if everyone starts saying the same thing, something will happen," says Takeshi Sasaki, a professor of politics at the University of Tokyo. "This election could create a national consensus for reform." Indeed, even Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, whose Liberal Democrats were in cahoots with the bureaucrats for decades, has promised to cut the 22 ministries in half if his party manages to once again win a solid mandate. Although the party is currently in the lead, polls predict that it will fall short of a majority, raising...
...main problem is that the Japanese people hoped for change three years ago, and are having a hard time taking these new pledges seriously. Despite Hashimoto's declarations, many Japanese expect the Liberal Democrats to sacrifice only the Ministry of Finance if they regain power. The electorate is so dyspeptic that just 52% of respondents in one survey said they plan to vote. Those who wish for a different Japan can only hope that the citizens who vote care enough for change...
TOKYO: Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto officially dissolved Parliament Friday and set elections for October 20. Japan's political parties had long expected the move and have been preparing for the beginning of a new political campaign. The current Parliament's four-year term doesn't expire until July 1997, but Irene Kunii reports from TIME's Tokyo bureau that Hashimoto's Liberal Democratic Party felt now represented its best chance to pick up seats in the 500-seat lower house. The dominant LDP holds 206 seats in the lower house and shares power with two other parties including, curiously enough...