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...harsh glare of television lights and strobe flashes, the 63-year-old man seemed tired. His fatigue was understandable. For months, Noboru Takeshita had been the front runner among three candidates to succeed Yasuhiro Nakasone, Japan's popular Prime Minister. But though he controlled the largest bloc of votes in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.), Takeshita did not have enough to take the office outright. Negotiations to persuade his rivals to withdraw were deadlocked. By 10 p.m. on the eve of a party vote, Takeshita, the consummate dealmaker, had realized there were no more deals to make. He reluctantly...
...little attention was paid to their policy papers. Never mind that one of the three candidates will become Prime Minister, succeeding Yasuhiro Nakasone, 70, when he steps down later this month after five years in office. No, the speculation immediately centered on which of the three -- Party Secretary General Noboru Takeshita, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe or Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa -- will be the best power broker, dispensing promises among the various factions that make up the L.D.P. The winner needs a majority of the 445 L.D.P. members in the Diet. "I do not think there are any contentious issues...
Fresh from his party's stunning parliamentary election victory, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone announced a wholesale shuffle of his Cabinet. After being reappointed Prime Minister by parliament, Nakasone last week replaced all but one of his 21 Cabinet officers. Two Nakasone rivals, Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe and Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita, were given top jobs within the Liberal Democratic Party hierarchy...
Among the six L.D.P. factions, several ambitious party leaders would no doubt like to replace Nakasone as Japan's Prime Minister. One of the top three contenders: Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita, 62, who belongs to the large faction of ailing former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka. Though Tanaka was convicted in 1983 on charges of accepting a $1.6 million bribe from Lockheed in 1977, his faction remains very powerful...
...feeling of camaraderie and shared experience. Says Yoichi Takahashi, head of Hitachi's 70,000-strong labor union: "Everything depends on dialogue and trust. What is good for the company is good for the union. The workers know that their labor is what makes the company prosperous." Adds Noboru Yoshii, a senior adviser of Sony Corp.: "There is little opposition between management and workers because every manager comes up the ladder from employee. We do not call our employees workers or laborers, but associates instead. One reason everyone at Sony wears the same blue-gray jacket is that...