Word: nationalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country by abruptly announcing that he would quit his post "to regain the trust of the people." Yet his departure had been a long time coming, as pressure built for months over what the Japanese call kinken-seiji, or money politics, the well-oiled system by which the nation's leaders attain power...
...dramatic turns in the Recruit scandal, which grew over the past ten months into Japan's worst since World War II, left the nation's politics in chaos. Japanese were anxiously asking, What next? First the Liberal Democratic Party must find a new Prime Minister untainted by the scandal. Japan is likely to face months of weak leadership and political uncertainty. That could have consequences as far away as Washington, where a host of trade and defense disputes have yet to be resolved. One of the thorniest was on the way to being settled last week, however, when President Bush...
...much of what Takeshita did was necessarily illegal. But the endless disclosures of wide-scale political financing bordering on corruption eventually shocked a nation that had come to think of itself as a modern, democratic superpower. "The L.D.P. must change," said Hiroko Yoshida, 27, a * department-store clerk. "It can no longer stay as it is after this scandal." Takeshita, who was also in trouble for imposing a consumption tax, was blamed for exposing the dirty side of the nation's politics, then failing to correct...
...moves helped restore calm to what has traditionally been the Middle East's most stable nation. But the outburst caught the government by surprise and signaled that something more was awry than momentary resentment over price hikes imposed two weeks...
...NATION: A brutal gang rape in New York's Central Park stirs fears about a new breed of children without mercy...