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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...
Died. Yoichiro Makita, 68, president of Japan's fifth largest corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries; of complications from a peptic ulcer; in Tokyo Makita became head of the mammoth company in 1969, set out immediately to forge an agreement allowing Chrysler Motors to market Mitsubishi's Colt in the U.S., the first such deal between Detroit and a Japanese manufacturer. Makita took unabashed pride in the fact that Mitsubishi's chief products during World War 11 were warships and Zero fighter planes, and was an outspoken advocate of Japan's rearmament "Now that our G.N.P. is third...
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