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...RYUTARO HASHIMOTO, WHO BECAME Japan's Prime Minister last Thursday, is not the typical Japanese politician. With his good looks, sideburns and slicked-back hair, he is a sex symbol. He once greeted U.S. trade negotiators wearing a green leather suit. And in a culture in which the supreme recreational passion is golf, Hashimoto likes scaling mountains (he was part of two Everest expeditions) and has practiced kendo, a Japanese style of fencing, on the roof of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry headquarters in downtown Tokyo...
...vibrant, telegenic figure, a man with a temper and a flair for the provocative gesture, Hashimoto represents a break with the past. But he is also a product of the Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan from 1955 to 1993, and the evidence suggests that whatever he may say about reforming Japanese politics or opening up the economy, he is unlikely to promote sweeping change. The real significance of Hashimoto's arrival as Prime Minister is not that he brings a new style but that his elevation sets up a first in Japan: a battle between a savvy, dynamic defender...
...then, the LDP has regained its influence, and politics has returned to form. Now there is a chance for a real election between two parties with distinct candidates. "This is very good for Japan," says Yasuhiko Torii, president of Tokyo's Keio University, the alma mater of Ozawa and Hashimoto. "Politics is very different. Ozawa and Hashimoto will have to really debate...
MAKING WAY FOR HASHIMOTO...
Surprising even members of his own government, Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama resigned. Murayama will probably be replaced by Ryutaro Hashimoto, the current Trade Minister, who earned a reputation as a tough negotiator during talks on auto imports with the U.S. last summer...