Word: masaharu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...censors frothing." "Bandit Queen" was indeed banned in India, but for what director Shekhar Kapur says are political reasons: the upper-class guardians of public morality who once defamed this low-caste rebel are now ensuring that "Bandit Queen" remains an untouchable.Photographs:Markey: Terry Ashe for TIMESerbs: Petar Kujundzic/REUTERSTokyo: Masaharu Hatano/REUTERSHiroshima: U.S. Army Signal CorpsU.N.: Mark Cardwell/Reuters
...meaning a country that can participate readily in military actions mandated by the United Nations or its own allies. Within the Hosokawa coalition, on the other hand, many, including the Prime Minister and chief Cabinet Secretary Masayoshi Takemura, are more at home with Japan's current antimilitary constitution. Predicts Masaharu Gotoda, a senior L.D.P. politician: "Japan will undergo another political reorganization before the next election. All the parties will gradually cluster around two large political forces...
...vast amounts of capital on the market by issuing shares and pour money back in for investment purposes. As the value of their shares and portfolios plunged, the banks cut back their lending, contributing to the worldwide capital crunch. "The golden age of Japanese financial institutions is over," says Masaharu Usuki, a government economist...