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...girl by U.S. servicemen served to galvanize residents already fed up with the noise and inconvenience of U.S. bases. Many, including Ota, have called for a complete U.S. withdrawal. It's unlikely that the U.S. will pull out completely, notes Kunii, especially since Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto are scheduled to sign an agreement this week reaffirming the U.S. commitment to Japan's defense. "Staying in Japan is actually more affordable for the American military. The Pentagon does not have to fire the troops, and with the Japanese paying 70 percent of the defense costs, it's cheaper...
Talk of a bailout has enraged Japanese voters. For three weeks opposition legislators blocked entrances to the budget-committee room of the Diet, Japan's legislature. They picked up their cushions and departed last week only after Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto agreed to extend debate on what had been a no-questions-asked $6.85 billion bailout of the housing-loan companies...
...land," Chibana said. "In the end, we will win." The Japanese government is not letting Chibana return, citing the U.S.-Japanese security relationship. Chibana led thousands of protesters this weekend outside his land at a U.S. Navy communications center, causing a potential embarrassment for Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. Hashimoto wants to quiet anti-U.S. military sentiment before President Clinton visits Japan later this month. "If Okinawans start demonstrating when Clinton is here like they did in October, this could backfire in Hashimoto's face," TIME correspondent Irene M. Kunii says. More than one million people demonstrated in October...
...that bundle his enemies together and subtly satanize them. His litany of Jewish villain names (ticking off "Goldman, Sachs...Greenspan" as if they were the Elders of Zion) is slyly anti-Semitic; he uses a tone of barroom xenophobia on "Jose," his multipurpose Mexican bashee. He says, "Listen, Mr. Hashimoto [the Japanese Prime Minister]," as if he meant "Mr. Tojo." Buchanan is almost as brilliant at populist bullying as George Wallace was in the days when the Alabaman ranted at "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight." After reviewing Buchanan's quotations over the years, even...
...there is much for them to debate. Hashimoto is burdened by a host of problems. The economy has shown negligible growth for four years. More and more, big Japanese companies are shifting factories overseas and idling plants at home. The banking system is teetering at the edge of a bad-loan abyss. Government officials have been swallowed up by one corruption scandal after another. Voters are restless: the last general election was held in 1993, and four different Prime Ministers have held office since then...