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...IMAGE MANY AMERICANS have of dovish former Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa is unfortunate: it's of him cradling a flu-stricken George H.W. Bush in 1992 after the President vomited on him during a dinner. Yet the former Foreign Minister advised policymakers in boosting Japan's economy after World War II; helped plan a bailout of Japan's failed banking system in the '90s; and as the country's leader for two years, sought to restore ties with wartime enemies in Asia. In 1992 he was the first Japanese PM to acknowledge the role of Japanese soldiers in forcing...
...back on the Silk Road, this time in Western China (Xinjiang province) 14 centuries ago. Lai Xi (Kiichi Nakai), a Japanese swordsman in the Tang Emperor's court, is assigned to capture and kill "Butcher" Li (Jiang Wen), a once-respected army officer accused of treason because he refused to kill women and children in a raid. Lai Xi and Li make an uneasy truce long enough to escort a general's daughter (Vicky Zhao Wei) and a Buddhist monk to safety. Can they escape the pursuit of evil Master An (Wang Xueqi), the preening aesthete and superslick fighter...
...that money through its postal savings system, which it has treated as an always-replenishing piggy bank to fund its huge public-spending projects. And thus the giant, unproductive cycle of money and labor churns on. "After all this time, Japan still has the resources to muddle through," says Kiichi Murashima of Nikko Salomon Smith Barney. "And as long as Japan can muddle through, it will...
...been killed, he would have become the 37th President of the U.S. and would have brought about a different perspective on U.S. relations with other world powers. Jacqueline Kennedy was an American princess and queen who had both American and European elegance. Camelot lives and is immortal! KIICHI OBARA Tokyo...
...depths Japan hasn't seen since 1984. By the end of this month, total government public debt will top $5.5 trillion, a head-spinning 130% of GDP. (America's $3.4 trillion in federal public debt is 35% of GDP.) "Japan's public finances are very near collapsing," Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said in uncharacteristically blunt remarks on March 8. He wouldn't say he was trying to drive down the price of the yen, but that's exactly what happened. The next day he backtracked...