Word: naoto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JAPAN: Naoto Kan, head of the Democratic Party of Japan, the country's largest opposition group, was alleged in a weekly magazine to have had an affair with a 32-year-old former newscaster. He denied the charge...
...conventions hilarious, "Shall We Dance?" is bound to tickle the most staid viewer. It makes abundant, admittedly effective use of stock comic devices and characters. Eriko Watanabe cuts a droll figure as the experienced but caustic and somewhat unattractive dancer whom Sugiyama agrees to partner in an amateur competition; Naoto Takenaka hams it up as a painfully self-conscious colleague who dons a wig and hurls himself with fiendish gusto into the rhumba; Sugiyama's two fellow dance-pupils--one short and hyper, one big and docile--offer some great moments of physical comedy. Amusing, too, are the private investigators...
...thirds of them are first-time contenders, born after World War II. The candidates will compete under a new electoral system designed to halt money politics and limit the influence of special interests. "We need to create a government that can bring about change," says Minister of Health Naoto Kan, the highly popular co-leader of the new Democratic Party, which is promoting its version of a "kinder, gentler" Japan. Depending on the political party, plans for administrative reform run from a polite overhaul of the Ministry of Finance--which bears most of the blame for the financial crisis...