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...Kiichi Miyazawa was playing to the hometown crowd when he told the Japanese parliament last week that American workers are lazy, greedy and lack a work ethic. Insulting as the Prime Minister's comments were, they were not the worst thing that Japanese politicians have said about Americans in the past few weeks. No wonder Americans are wounded. It isn't just that the Japanese view of U.S. workers is degrading, it's that it is wrong -- and woefully out of date...
...Japan, debts are neither readily forgotten nor easily repaid. The Japanese acknowledge the enormous debt they owe America for the benevolence of the post-World War II occupation and for the nurturing and protection the U.S. has provided Japan ever since. As Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa put it in a speech two weeks ago, "It is no exaggeration to say that Japan could not have achieved its postwar prosperity had it not been for the good-hearted support of the U.S." Older Japanese in particular feel the need to repay that debt, especially now that...
...seemed so woefully ill prepared on foreign soil. Bush was unable to articulate a coherent rationale, other than pity, for why Japan should liberalize its economic system to reduce its trade surplus with the U.S. With a carping chorus of car executives and a patronizing lecture from Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, the Bush visit became the free- trade version of Jerry Ford's WIN (for Whip Inflation Now) buttons...
...Japan's chronic influence-peddling scandals, only some of the names seem to change. Last week another probe into the governing Liberal Democratic Party's pervasive cronyism ended in the arrest of Fumio Abe, one of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's most senior political allies and a party stalwart. He was seized on suspicion of having illegally pocketed more than $540,000 from the Kyowa Corp. for helping the steel-frame maker win lucrative contracts...
...seem the tool of overpaid corporate CEOs? Or that the largely unenforceable agreements he reached were soon denounced as inadequate by the U.S. automobile executives who accompanied him on the journey? Or did the nadir come when the President threw up on the trousers of Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and then passed out at a state dinner in Tokyo...