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...anything typified the gathering's sunny side, it was the hour-long session that Clinton held with Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa -- who flew directly from his own triumphant passage of political reform legislation that could have major consequences for the world economic order. The pair laughed, chatted amiably and spent 20 minutes in closed-door discussion. As Clinton said later, "This is a different government and a different time with, I think, different objectives for the internal economy of . Japan." The pair agreed to meet again on Feb. 11 to hash out new trade deals...
EVER SINCE HIS JULY ELECTION, KNOWing oddsmakers had doubted that Morihiro Hosokawa could keep his promise to write corruption out of the unofficial rulebook of Japanese politics. Two Prime Ministers before him, Kiichi Miyazawa and Toshiki Kaifu, lost the job trying to accomplish that feat, and the Diet was full of wily politicians determined that Hosokawa would fare no better. But the doubters underestimated the extent to which the scion of an aristocratic landowning family was a politician of a new stripe. Nor did the skeptics anticipate that Hosokawa's unprecedented popularity would give him the authority he needed...
Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa won a powerful victory when the lower house of Japan's parliament passed his four-bill reform package. The country's notoriously corrupt political system will undergo a major overhaul if the bills are passed by the parliament's upper house, as expected. Among the changes are a switch to single-member constituencies and a ban on corporate campaign donations to individual politicians...
...SHINTARO ISHIHARA, ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE POLITICIAN AND AUTHOR, REVILING PRIME MINISTER MORIHIRO HOSAKAWA OVER HIS APOLOGY FOR JAPAN'S WORLD WAR II AGGRESSION
...would like to take this opportunity to offer anew our deep remorse and apologies for our nation's past acts of aggression." JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER MORIHIRO HOSOKAWA apologizing for World...