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...Japan, debts are neither readily forgotten nor easily repaid. The Japanese acknowledge the enormous debt they owe America for the benevolence of the post-World War II occupation and for the nurturing and protection the U.S. has provided Japan ever since. As Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa put it in a speech two weeks ago, "It is no exaggeration to say that Japan could not have achieved its postwar prosperity had it not been for the good-hearted support of the U.S." Older Japanese in particular feel the need to repay that debt, especially now that...
...authority to lead the free world, a leadership that Tokyo used to accept without question. These days, says a Foreign Ministry official, Japan is weary of being treated like a mindless "cash register" to be rung up when problems arise but not consulted or taken seriously by Washington. Miyazawa wanted to make that the focus of his talks with Bush during his recent visit, but the subject was mostly drowned out by the flap over trade...
...woefully ill prepared on foreign soil. Bush was unable to articulate a coherent rationale, other than pity, for why Japan should liberalize its economic system to reduce its trade surplus with the U.S. With a carping chorus of car executives and a patronizing lecture from Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, the Bush visit became the free- trade version of Jerry Ford's WIN (for Whip Inflation Now) buttons...
...Japan's chronic influence-peddling scandals, only some of the names seem to change. Last week another probe into the governing Liberal Democratic Party's pervasive cronyism ended in the arrest of Fumio Abe, one of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa's most senior political allies and a party stalwart. He was seized on suspicion of having illegally pocketed more than $540,000 from the Kyowa Corp. for helping the steel-frame maker win lucrative contracts...
...Prime Minister called the arrest, the first of an incumbent Diet member since the Lockheed bribery scandal of the 1970s, "regrettable indeed." For Miyazawa, whose government recently suffered legislative setbacks, the case resurrects memories that he and his party would rather keep buried. Along with other leading officials, he resigned three years ago during a notorious bribery affair involving the Recruit information-services empire. Opposition parties plan to dissect the latest mess amid news reports of more ruling-party misdeeds...