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Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama apologized to the estimated 200,000 women forced into prostitution by Japanese armed forces during World War II. The government also appointed a group he hopes will collect at least $22.7 million to compensate the comfort women, of whom about 1,000 are believed to survive...
...peace. To be sure, the pact left both sides momentarily ebullient. In Tokyo an official of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry reported after the deal was struck, "They're so happy that they're giddy over there" -- over there meaning in the office of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. And by transatlantic telephone Bill Clinton told U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, "Hey, Mick, congratulations. It sounds like you did great." It may not have been a cigar-on-the-veranda moment for the President, but he was clearly pleased. And, maybe more to the point, relieved...
...sooner had the leaders of thebig seven economic powers arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia today, than President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama were trading tough talk about their trade standoff. Clinton refused to budge: "Billions of dollars in American exports and thousands of jobs are at stake," Clinton said of the automobile dispute, insisting that he would imposeunprecedented trade sanctions against Japanif the standoff continues past June 28. Murayama replied that the two allies should not conduct business "with both of our fists raised...
...withdrew plans to display artifacts and photos of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead visitors will see the fuselage of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress plane that flew the Hiroshima mission, and a videotape of its crew. While Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama called the decision ``regrettable,'' Hiroshima survivor Koshiro Kondo was more emphatic: ``We had hoped that the feelings of the people of Hiroshima might have gotten through to the American people...
...stricken city, stopping at a site where many had died to place a bouquet of daffodils from the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Their tour of the disaster area was delayed two weeks, so as not to interfere with rescue operations. Though Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama got a cool reception when he was in Kobe 48 hours after the temblor, seeing their Emperor and Empress was a symbol of hope for most quake survivors...