Word: makoto
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Japanese officials rushed to keep the trade conflict from spinning out of control. Foreign Minister Tadashi Kuranari urged that "overall U.S.-Japanese relations should not be undermined by this issue." Makoto Kuroda, a senior member of the country's powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), prepared to hie to Washington. His job: to convey dismay at the bombshell U.S. decision to retaliate with some $300 million worth of tariffs on a wide range of Japanese electronic goods. In addition, former Japanese Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe has been named as a special envoy by Tokyo to help deflect...
...Government's new toughness is at least partly a response to what Washington perceives as a hardening of Tokyo's attitude. Congress was particularly galled last week by the contents of a classified State Department report that revealed a statement by the vice chief of MITI, Makoto Kuroda, to the effect that U.S. supercomputer makers would only be wasting their time trying to sell the advanced machines to Japanese government agencies or universities. His remarks, which he reportedly made in January at a lunch for visiting U.S. trade officials, seemed to betray a lack of sincerity in Japan's repeated...