Word: hosokawa
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...first major policy speech since his election Aug. 6, Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa promised a fundamental restructuring of the country's political system and pledged to reduce Japan's trade surplus. He also apologized for Japanese aggression during World...
Japan's new Prime Minister, Morihiro Hosokawa, is practicing both new- and old-style politics. His newly formed Cabinet reflects the continuing power of the recently ousted Liberal Democratic Party in that its most important ministers are former members of the L.D.P. But Hosokawa has also told the press he will step down if he cannot pass reform legislation. In a rare admission for a Japanese official, Hosokawa acknowledged his country's guilt in World War II: "I myself think it was a war of aggression," he said, "a war that was wrong...
Seven Japanese parties agreed to form a coalition government, which for the first time since 1955 would shut the Liberal Democrats out of power. The coalition, which includes socialists, conservatives, centrists and reformers, seems to have settled on Morihiro Hosokawa, founder 14 months ago of the Japan New Party, to be Prime Minister...
...MORIHIRO HOSOKAWA...