Word: junichiro
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...Indeed, it is not. Last week, for example, an effort by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to encourage foreign companies to buy or merge with Japanese businesses was set back when legislators postponed needed legal changes until at least 2007. But a foreigner would never have got the chance to run Sony if Japan was not changing. In Sony itself, that transformation is now well grounded. "The Japanese executives' concern about Sony is palpable," says Stringer. "They are not rooting for me to fail. Our pride has been battered and it's time to fight back...
...This process has picked up steam under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. "Koizumi and Bush see each other, talk to each other, and like each other," notes Jack Pritchard, also a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. "That has made all the difference in the world in terms of how the Japanese perceive their relationship with the U.S." Washington wants Japan to take a bigger role globally. "In the words of key members of the administration, Japan ought to become the England of Asia," says Lieberthal, "a security partner who will act with the U.S., not simply a piece of real...
...kidding. Increasingly, Japan looks unwilling to roll over and allow China to dictate terms in Asia. Under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, it is modernizing its military and strengthening its strategic alliance with the U.S. ("The relationship between our countries is the best it's ever been," said Baker last week.) Notoriously, Koizumi has ignored China's demands that he cease visiting the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, where the souls of some war criminals from World War II are memorialized...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has never been popular with other politicians, even those in his own Liberal Democratic Party. But the days when he could count on strong public support seem to be slipping away as well. According to a poll conducted by the Asahi newspaper, Koizumi's approval rating has fallen to 33%, the lowest since he took office nearly four years ago. No single event seems to have triggered the drop-off; instead, a number of slow-burning factors have quietly eroded his support, which ran as high as 84% shortly after he became Prime Minister...
Jenkins' world suddenly began to brighten two years ago. The breakthrough was Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il (the son and successor of Kim Il Sung) in Pyongyang. Kim confirmed Japan's long-held suspicion that North Korea had been kidnapping Japanese citizens and forcing them to teach at its spy schools. Soga, Jenkins' wife, was acknowledged to be among the abductees. After the summit, she and the four others Pyongyang said were still alive returned to Japan for what was meant to be a 10-day visit. They never went back...