Word: kiichi
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...coalition able to oust what is left of Japan's unruly and unroyal dynasty. Once the managers of Japan's rise to economic-superpower status under the warm glow of its alliance with the U.S., the Liberal Democrats today are noted for a single, sordid attribute: corruption. Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa sank to a lowly 9% approval rating two weeks ago after he buckled under party pressure and failed to deliver promised anticorruption legislation, despite intense popular demands to do so. That provoked a successful no-confidence motion in the Diet -- supported by Hata's group and 11 other L.D.P...
Japanese legislators have approved a motion of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa; they say he has failed to attack political corruption as he promised to do. It is only the second such resolution since the 1950s. Miyazawa has dissolved the parliament, and must call new elections within 40 days...
...KIICHI MIYAZAWA...
Superficially at least, it was a big advance over the last time Japanese Premier Kiichi Miyazawa met with an American President: there were no digestive mishaps, and by quoting the song Yes! We Have No Bananas, Miyazawa made light of Bill Clinton's remark to Boris Yeltsin that Japanese say yes when they mean no. As for substance, however, Clinton's first U.S.-Japanese summit did not mark much of a change in the relations between the two countries. "Let's not paper this over," said Clinton. "There are differences still between the Prime Minister and me." Japanese markets...
Happy relationships with its global partners may be no easier for Japan. On Friday, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa calls at the White House for his first face-to-face encounter with Bill Clinton, who has already shown how broad the gap in mutual understanding could be. Dining with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Vancouver summit, Clinton remarked that "when the Japanese say yes to us, they often mean no." While many Japanese acknowledge their penchant for the ambiguous, the White House rushed to forestall any damage to the U.S.-Japan relationship. Clinton, said spokesman George Stephanopoulos, was only making...