Word: miyazawa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...able to oust what is left of Japan's unruly and unroyal dynasty. Once the managers of Japan's rise to economic-superpower status under the warm glow of its alliance with the U.S., the Liberal Democrats today are noted for a single, sordid attribute: corruption. Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa sank to a lowly 9% approval rating two weeks ago after he buckled under party pressure and failed to deliver promised anticorruption legislation, despite intense popular demands to do so. That provoked a successful no-confidence motion in the Diet -- supported by Hata's group and 11 other L.D.P. legislators...
Stunned by the legislative coup, Japan is now thoroughly absorbed by its newly chaotic politics. U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor arrived in Tokyo Tuesday looking for someone in the mood to negotiate in preparation for the Group of Seven summit meeting next week. It is unlikely that Miyazawa's lame-duck government will offer any major new trade concessions or initiatives to help boost the world economy, increasing chances that the Tokyo summit will be stillborn...
...announcing that it will not argue with traditional L.D.P. economic and foreign policies, but at least in theory it still opposes nuclear power, the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, the existence of the Self-Defense Forces and the elimination of certain trade barriers -- all policies Hata and Ozawa favor. Miyazawa has already zeroed in on this contradiction. "I am not ready to leave politics up to the opposition," he said in an interview last week...
Ozawa and Hata's best prospect, however, may be to bring over more supporters from the L.D.P., where there is still considerable unhappiness with Miyazawa, 73, and worry about the voters' wrath on the reform issue. Former Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu announced a 105-member group of L.D.P. legislators who favor reforms. If the Hata group does well, they may just defect...
...KIICHI MIYAZAWA...