Word: kunihiro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While such sloganeering proved effective on the hustings, the Socialists will have to offer voters something more than the rhetoric of protest if they hope to build on their success. "Casting the protest vote is no longer enough," concedes Masao Kunihiro, a newly elected J.S.P. legislator. Like the Solidarity movement in Poland, the J.S.P. and its allies may discover that it is far easier to belittle the old than construct something new. The Socialists are already having trouble rallying opposition parties behind a single agenda. The J.S.P., for instance, stands alone in calling for an unarmed, neutral Japan and opposing...
...Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita at a critical moment in U.S.-Japan relations. Says an official in the Foreign Ministry: "We have a first-rate economy, a second-rate standard of living and third-rate politicians." But the Japanese are beginning to look for stronger leadership. Cultural anthropologist Masao Kunihiro says that during a recent lecture tour he found voters "increasingly becoming aware of international affairs"; eventually, he suggests, "they will choose more genuinely international minded politicians...
...cross that barrier, translators and interpreters are more necessary but less effective, since the Japanese language not only is difficult in itself but represents a quite different concept of speech. Anthropologist Masao Kunihiro notes: "English is intended strictly for communication. Japanese is primarily interested in feeling out the other person's mood." Misunderstandings are a constant hazard. At one top-level conference, for example, President Nixon asked for a cut in Japanese textile exports, and Prime Minister Sato answered, "Zensho shimasu," which was translated literally as "I'll handle it as well as I can." Nixon thought that...