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...HOURS, IT LOOKED AS IF PRIME MINISTER Kiichi Miyazawa would weaken his political opponents in a shrewdly orchestrated maneuver. When Michio Watanabe, 69, announced he would resign from his post of Foreign Minister owing to poor health, Miyazawa offered the position to former Finance Minister Tsutomu Hata. Hata heads a rebellious faction in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party and has hinted that he might create a new party. Miyazawa apparently thought he could distract Hata from his cause by luring the renegade into his Cabinet with a prestigious post. Hata, however, declined the offer, saying he wanted to "stay...
Happy relationships with its global partners may be no easier for Japan. On Friday, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa calls at the White House for his first face-to-face encounter with Bill Clinton, who has already shown how broad the gap in mutual understanding could be. Dining with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Vancouver summit, Clinton remarked that "when the Japanese say yes to us, they often mean no." While many Japanese acknowledge their penchant for the ambiguous, the White House rushed to forestall any damage to the U.S.-Japan relationship. Clinton, said spokesman George Stephanopoulos, was only making...
...some credibility for prodding the G-7 partners to pick up a bigger share of aid for Russian reform. That pitch will run into resistance. Tokyo resents Moscow's refusal to return four Kurile Islands, seized at the end of World War II. Clinton phoned Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa on Friday and told Yeltsin that he expected Japan to "play a constructive role...
...their tractors down Tokyo's Ginza to protest the opening of Japan's closed rice market. With the U.S. and the European Community (except France) now in accord on agricultural products at the gatt talks, Japan must either sign on or risk losing trade access. Moreover, Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa has hinted at a shift, warning that Japan "must avoid at all costs those things which might endanger the successful conclusion of the GATT talks...
These days, many Americans would be hard pressed to name any world leader aside from, perhaps, Boris Yeltsin. Imagine the puzzlement if U.S. headline writers began invoking first names like Helmut (Kohl) or Kiichi (Miyazawa). But all through Europe, Bill and Hillary have suddenly become as familiar as other one-word American icons like Madonna, Magic and McDonald's. Is this Clinton mania merely the latest manifestation of the one eternally booming U.S. industry -- the creation of international celebrities -- or does it speak to something larger about the worldwide perception of both America and its new President-elect...