Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diplomats respect him as an individual," says Stogel. "So there was melancholy in the air Monday. That ovation could be taken as a last farewell." Perhaps it's a good thing, after all, that no one was watching. Note: Adding to the morning's cruel ironies were reports that Japan's defense minister Fukushiro Nukaga, on a visit to the Pentagon, was hospitalized after his limousine ran into an anti-terrorism barrier mistakenly activated as Nukaga attempted to enter the Pentagon grounds. The barrier "went up and the defense minister's car ran into it," said Pentagon spokesman Col. Richard...
...their part, U.S. officials fear that Japan?s stonewalling may be a reflection of real disarray in the Obuchi government. If the trend continues, then Japan cannot expect Washington?s spirit of camaraderie to last for long...
Given that Japan?s economy is sinking further into recession each day and the world?s top economists are clamoring for a rescue, and given that American officials, after long criticizing the Japanese government?s inaction, have lately been trying to be conciliatory and quietly helpful, you might have thought that last weekend?s bank-rescue agreement between Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi and the opposition would immediately encourage better relations with Washington. Wrong. Ever since an unproductive meeting between Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and Japanese finance minister Kiichi Miyazawa in San Francisco on Sept. 5, Miyazawa?s office has dodged...
Then he returned to Japan for the rest of the summer, and heard nothing. No notes. No anonymous mailings...
...have been met by making assistance to the stricken Long Term Credit Bank -- one of the country's largest -- conditional on effectively declaring it bankrupt. "Compromise between Obuchi and the opposition is the first good sign that they're moving toward resolving the banking crisis," says Baumohl. "But with Japan's banks holding as much as $1 trillion in bad loans, there's a lot more to be done...