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...little before 7:30 p.m., Kunihiko Miyamoto was busy dealing with the day's crisis - helping a housewife who'd lost the key to her bicycle lock. It was the standard dramatic police work for the 53-year-old Miyamoto, who manned a station on a commuter train line in Tokiwadai in northern Tokyo. Miyamoto was the sort of police officer who helped elderly pedestrians pass the train crossing, and kept an eye out for the drunken salarymen who, buzzed from a night of office imbibing, threatened to take headers off the platform. "He held the safety of the people...
...case study of a self-serving corporation that systematically concealed safety problems to protect its brand. Mitsubishi's reputation has become so tarnished in Japan that industry executives and analysts now openly question its ability to stay in business. "The probability of survival is quite small," says Kunihiko Shiohara, a managing director at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo...
Even the Japanese themselves knew that the unsigned statement could have gone farther. After all, Obuchi consciously reiterated statements made in 1972, thinking that the issue had already been addressed. Kunihiko Makita, Japan's Consul-General in Hong Kong, knew there would be controversy. The South China Morning News reports that Makita tried to diffuse some of the tension by explaining that, although Japan does have extreme nationalists who "refuse to acknowledge history, if you ask a citizen on Tokyo's streets of his views of Japan's past, I believe he would express remorse and shame...
IRIS CHANG, best-selling author of The Rape of Nanking, last week challenged Japan's ambassador in Washington to a televised debate. The 30-year-old writer threw down the gauntlet after Ambassador Kunihiko Saito described Chang's book, which chronicles Japanese atrocities in China in the 1930s, as "inaccurate," "distorted" and "erroneous." The Foreign Ministry in Tokyo later said Saito was objecting only to the suggestion that Japan has never apologized for its actions and has tried to keep the incident out of textbooks used by schoolchildren. Saito's attack on Chang has so far drawn fire from only...
Iris Chang, best-selling author of "The Rape of Nanking," last week challenged Japan?s ambassador in Washington to a televised debate. The 30-year-old writer threw down the gauntlet after Ambassador Kunihiko Saito described Chang?s book, which chronicles Japanese atrocities in China in the 1930s, as ?inaccurate,? ?distorted? and ?erroneous.? The Foreign Ministry in Tokyo later said Saito was objecting only to the suggestion that Japan has never apologized for its actions and has tried to keep the incident out of textbooks used by schoolchildren...