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Japanese news reports said former Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ito, now one of the party's three key leaders, was approached about acting as an interim prime minister...
...field featured 23 women, but only a handful delivered memorable routines. America's Jill Trenary offered an elegant performance that placed her fourth. (Caryn Kadavy, the most expressive of the U.S. skaters, was forced to withdraw from the competition with a 103 degrees fever.) The charmer was petite Midori Ito of Japan, only 18, who entranced the audience with her powerhouse jumps and girlish enthusiasm. As she concluded her routine with a gravity-defying triple Lutz, Ito shook her fists triumphantly above her head and burst into unabashed tears of delight. Though she finished fifth, Ito received a standing ovation...
...sales tax!) has been raised since February, Nakasone's proposed tax reforms, which include a new 5% sales tax, have won him few friends. Last week the Prime Minister's ruling Liberal Democratic Party suffered its worst setback in 30 years in local elections. Concluded Tokyo Political Commentator Masayoshi Ito: "The Nakasone administration is in its last days...
...manufactures Datsun automobiles, had met with Takase and the president of Toyota Motor Sales last March at a time when the Administration was deciding whether to seek lower import quotas for Japanese cars. The next day Allen attended a meeting with Reagan and Japan's Foreign Minister, Masayoshi Ito, to discuss import quotas. Worried about a possible conflict of interest, White House officials asked Allen to review his records for past contacts with Japanese businessmen...
...exercises had already been suspended. Finally, Suzuki's apparently successful visit to Washington in May turned into an embarrassment after a joint communique referred for the first time to a U.S.-Japan "alliance," a phrase that to the Japanese connotes a military pact. Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ito, who helped draft the dispatch, resigned...