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...earmarked to jolt the economy awake. Granted, nothing seems to have worked yet. But the U.S. intervention to bolster the value of the yen last month and a stream of editorials decrying Japan's lack of resolve have spurred Tokyo to further action. Just last week, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto announced the establishment of a national bank to enable Japan to close insolvent banks while protecting their honest borrowers. He later said he would support a permanent...
That goes for the whole country. Analysts predict that if the ruling Liberal Democratic Party does well in this weekend's parliamentary election, Hashimoto may win the clout he needs to push for controversial reform. Yet voter turnout is expected to be low, mainly because the public is disgusted with the political system. Moreover, an L.D.P. victory would depend on traditional supporters like farmers and construction workers, who are against reform because it would threaten their contracts and subsidies...
...RYUTARO HASHIMOTO Beleaguered Japanese chief would have loved Clinton to drop in, but Bill rides the China clipper home...
TOKYO: Prime Minister Hashimoto may have left the bridge in the middle of a storm, but don't expect Tokyo to pick a strong helmsman to replace him. "Unless Japan's new prime minister is a real surprise rather than any of the likely candidates, we can expect more political chaos and not less," says TIME Tokyo bureau chief Frank Gibney...
...Hashimoto resigned after his party was humiliated at the polls, stalling even the halting steps at economic reform recently launched by Tokyo. "Hashimoto didn't say the policies were flawed or that the LDP was to blame -- he's trying to take the blame for not implementing the reforms quickly and effectively," says Gibney. Hashimoto will stay in office until the LDP appoints a successor. The leading candidate right now is Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi, who's known as a consensus builder rather than a Teddy Roosevelt. "The LDP needs a consensus to govern," says Gibney. "The fact that Hashimoto...