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...Keizo Obuchi, Prime Minister, Japan...
...Baumohl isn?t even sure he can trust the surprisingly robust number on its face. With so much riding politically on Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi?s ability to get his country?s once-proud economic heart beating again, "it?s a bit dubious," he says. "I?m not saying there?s some nefarious plot, but with so much political pressure for a turnaround, some analysts suspect that some pretty optimistic reckoning was used...
Even though negotiations had started this summer over how Japan would refer to its past, Jiang could not secure a clear-cut written apology for Japan's actions from Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi. Obuchi did verbally express a "heartfelt apology," but the text of the document did not use such wording. Indeed, despite last-minute efforts, the joint statement appeared without signatures, a fact which indicates, at least to foreign policy analysts, that the document's final form was unsatisfactory to the Chinese leader...
...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 attempts to set further discussions with U.S. officials. And last Friday...
...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 attempts to set further discussions with U.S. officials. And last Friday...