Word: miyazawa
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...University invited Miyazawa to speak before he made the controversial comments...
...Kiichi Miyazawa, the prime minister of Japan, is currently considering an invitation from President Neil L. Rudenstine to speak at the University, faculty members said yesterday...
Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics Susan J. Pharr said she personally delivered the invitation to Miyazawa during a recent research trip to Japan. The invitation is "open-ended" and for any time during the 1992 academic year, excluding the summer...
...Miyazawa was "noncommittal" about the offer, Pharr said...
There are two kinds of U.S. workers: the ones the Japanese imagine and the ones Americans see around them, putting in long hours and worrying about the future. Miyazawa's description of poorly motivated workers, unwilling to put in long hours, sounds like the classic management view of featherbedding autoworkers in the 1960s. While he imagines workers who are doing less and less, the truth is that Americans are working longer and longer hours. Perhaps Miyazawa has the right to strike back at the quality of American effort after listening to Lee Iacocca blame his problems on Tokyo...