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...busy weekend of international visitors accompanied by heavy security was capped Monday night, with a whistle-stop visit to Harvard by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi...
...recent souring of the global economy. The bank sector's bad loans have increased relentlessly, growing 64% to $302 billion between March 1997 and September 2001. Despite its promises to overhaul the financial system, and hints last week of another economy-boosting package, the administration of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has done nothing substantive to alleviate the problem. Just last week, the Financial Services Agency backpedaled on needed reforms by promising to maintain guarantees on certain bank deposits. Reformers argue that lifting blanket guarantees would force weak banks to shape up or close...
...that sponsors trips to the world's trouble spots, hoping to promote grassroots exchanges. The trip offered the largest contingent of Japanese to visit North Korea in modern times a rare glimpse of the cloistered Stalinist state. It also afforded ordinary Japanese citizens an opportunity to experience what Junichiro Koizumi, their Prime Minister, will undoubtedly face when he makes his highly publicized pilgrimage to North Korea on Sept. 17: myriad and pointed reminders from North Korean officials of Japan's wartime atrocities and the need to pay war reparations...
...Lucy and the football. Each time Lucy persuades Charlie Brown that she won't yank the ball away as he runs to kick it, but at the last minute she always does. Gullible Charlie once again falls in the mud. It's much the same with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who plays Lucy to the beleaguered country's Charlie Brown. Koizumi convinced everyone during his election campaign in April 2001 that he would embark on drastic reforms "with no sacred cows." But his reforms are now mired in compromise and dealmaking, and the old bureaucracies remain firmly in charge...
...failed to make an impression on the level of unrest in the remote area. The poll has become so chaotic that the country's newspapers called for fresh voting, but the Election Commission has continued with the count. JAPAN War Shrine South Koreans angry over the visit by Junichiro Koizumi, Japan's Prime Minister, to a Tokyo shrine containing the remains of war criminals have joined legal proceedings against him. About 800 people, mostly South Koreans, signed on to one of three law-suits that are pending against Koizumi. The suits claim that his visit to the Shinto Yasukuni shrine...