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...first major policy speech since his election Aug. 6, Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa promised a fundamental restructuring of the country's political system and pledged to reduce Japan's trade surplus. He also apologized for Japanese aggression during World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest August 22-28 | 9/6/1993 | See Source »

Japan's new Prime Minister, Morihiro Hosokawa, is practicing both new- and old-style politics. His newly formed Cabinet reflects the continuing power of the recently ousted Liberal Democratic Party in that its most important ministers are former members of the L.D.P. But Hosokawa has also told the press he will step down if he cannot pass reform legislation. In a rare admission for a Japanese official, Hosokawa acknowledged his country's guilt in World War II: "I myself think it was a war of aggression," he said, "a war that was wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest August 8-14 | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

Seven Japanese parties agreed to form a coalition government, which for the first time since 1955 would shut the Liberal Democrats out of power. The coalition, which includes socialists, conservatives, centrists and reformers, seems to have settled on Morihiro Hosokawa, founder 14 months ago of the Japan New Party, to be Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: News Digest July 25-31 | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...MORIHIRO HOSOKAWA...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winners & Losers: Aug. 9, 1993 | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

...Kunimune, a late 13th century blade that Dr. Compton bought from a job lot offered by a Midwestern gun dealer. The sword, which had been looted from its shrine in Kyushu by a G.I. and has since been restored to Japan as a gift, is considered by Ogawa Morihiro "perfect in every aspect among all the existing national treasure blades." At first sight, it is difficult to imagine that the sword was finished by a contemporary of Giotto, a quarter of a century before Dante began writing the Divine Comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculpture in Cutting Steel | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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