Word: masaharu
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...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...
Other potential successors to Takeshita include former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, 84; ex-Deputy Prime Minister Shin Kanemaru, 74; Masaharu Gotoda, 74, who served as key aide to former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone; and Michita Sakata, 72, speaker of the House of Representatives...
...Reagan is a lame duck, our Prime Minister is a dying duck." Nakasone probably did not feel any better after U.S. Trade Representative Yeutter told a Senate Finance Committee hearing that he could not understand why Japan was planning to introduce the value-added tax. Replied Japanese Government Spokesman Masaharu Gotoda: "The tax system is our country's internal affair...
About half of Matsushita's 1972 exports of $736 million went to the U.S., and Masaharu is confident that it will remain a huge customer. But if any slack develops, there is always the long-range potential of the market in China, which he will visit in September. "I'm sure," he says, "we will be only too happy to do what we can to help promote economic development in China...