Word: kaifu
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...strings of a puppet, and it falls down. That is what happened last week to Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu. Noboru Takeshita, the leader of the dominant faction within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, severed the political cords that have propped up Kaifu for two years. Kaifu realized he had lost his standing within the party. Rather than face humiliation in the Oct. 27 party elections that will select the next Prime Minister, he announced that he would...
...Presidents, Prime Ministers and potentates whom, in many cases, he knows well and calls by their first name. If a crisis erupts, Bush's instinct is to reach for a telephone. More trouble on the Turkey-Iraq border? Call Turgut Ozal. Another glitch in the trade talks? Call Toshiki Kaifu. For the past 2 1/2 years, the White House switchboard has often been more important to the conduct of U.S. foreign policy than the State Department, CIA and Strategic Air Command combined...
Ever since President Bush announced plans to visit Hawaii for the 50th anniversary of the PEARL HARBOR attack, the government of Toshiki Kaifu has been scrambling to avert a fresh round of Japan bashing. Kaifu's advisers have suggested that when Bush travels to Tokyo as scheduled in late November, he pay a respectful call on Hiroshima. Some have even hinted that Bush, a World War II fighter pilot who was shot down by the Japanese in 1944, should take Kaifu with him to Pearl Harbor to symbolize how two old enemies are now allies. But White House officials vehemently...
...Reagan and Bush administrations have helped too. Former Secretary of State George Shultz raised the issue repeatedly. James Baker and most of his senior deputies have done the same. During a meeting in California in April, President George Bush told Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu that the end of the gulf war "might be an opportunity for Japan to have closer relations with Israel." Kaifu agreed, adding that the Arab boycott was "undesirable." Vice President Dan Quayle, who met with Kaifu in Tokyo last week, pressed for more steps in the right direction...
...L.D.P. fiasco has stirred speculation that Kaifu's days may be numbered -- or at the very least that his chances of re-election next October are doomed. "Without Ozawa in one of the party top posts, Kaifu could be a lame- duck Prime Minister," observed a Japanese politician. Others speculate that Ozawa's sudden downfall might trigger the comeback of former Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita, still considered one of the most powerful politicians in Japan despite his resignation two years ago over an influence- peddling scandal...