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...President got crucial help from his host. Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's career may well be almost over; the Japanese nickname for him now is "dead body." But if his Liberal Democratic Party is to continue its 38- year rule past next Sunday's parliamentary elections, it must convince voters that it is synonymous with stability, and that involves maintaining good relations with Japan's foreign partners. Miyazawa thus could not allow the summit to fail...
...misery loves company, leaders attending the annual Group of Seven summit $ in Japan this week ought to feel right at home, for a sadder collection of bruises and black eyes would be hard to find. From John Major of Britain to Kiichi Miyazawa of Japan, the heads of the world's richest and most powerful democracies have been chewed up in a grinder of popular discontent...
...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...
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