Word: miyazawa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rewards of industrial expansion. Abroad, many of Japan's best trading partners are becoming increasingly impatient with the way that its businessmen flood the world with exports while keeping their own economy insulated from foreign goods and capital. These new problems confuse and disturb the Japanese. Kiichi Miyazawa, a leading economist, sums up the mood: "For years, our people learned to cope with poverty. We do not yet know how to cope with plentifulness...
Sato's first move was a complete Cabinet overhaul aimed at ending corruption. "Make sure you separate your public and private life," Sato warned each appointee. Among the new faces: State Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, 47, an economist who will double as director of the economic planning agency; Finance Minister Mikio Mizuta, 61, a proponent of greater capital investment in industry; Foreign Minister Takeo Miki, 59, an advocate of increased Japanese aid and development projects in the rest of Asia...