Word: kiichi
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Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Shintaro Abe and Kiichi Miyazawa, both leading candidates when Takeshita was chosen party leader in November 1987, are considered out of the running now because of their own ties to the scandal...
...unseemliness of the deals has forced the resignation of Ezoe and 20 other people. The first big political casualty: Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, who resigned last month. He was caught in a net of contradictory denials, and finally admitted that an aide had taken part in the Recruit offerings, using the Minister's name. Ironically, the fall of Miyazawa strengthened the political position of Takeshita, since the men had been rivals in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. Five days later, Hisashi Shinto, chairman of the giant Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, stepped aside after conceding his involvement in the Recruit stock...
...House. Its major point: "The United States wants to see stability in the dollar." Despite such jawboning, the world's moneymen seem convinced that the dollar cannot strengthen as long as the U.S. trade deficit, estimated at a record $175 billion in 1987, keeps rising. Says Japanese Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa: "There may be a feeling that one cannot quite believe that the U.S. trade balance is really going to improve...
That bloc worked to his advantage against his rivals for the prime ministership. While former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe could boast of wide- ranging international contacts and Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa could traipse through Japan's bureaucratic jungle blindfolded, Takeshita had the greatest leverage in the party itself...
...that one of the three candidates will become Prime Minister, succeeding Yasuhiro Nakasone, 70, when he steps down later this month after five years in office. No, the speculation immediately centered on which of the three -- Party Secretary General Noboru Takeshita, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe or Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa -- will be the best power broker, dispensing promises among the various factions that make up the L.D.P. The winner needs a majority of the 445 L.D.P. members in the Diet. "I do not think there are any contentious issues dividing us," said Takeshita. "It will boil down to differences...