Word: ohira
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stoessinger could have added the names of Khomeini, Gaddafi, Khalid, Schmidt, Giscard, Ohira, Brezhnev, Lopez Portillo, Torrijos, Thatcher-all humans magnified mightily by the television lens, transposed into looming actors on a global stage...
...decision to fill domestic American orders first. Still, some skeptical U.S. officials noted that Japan's storage tanks are brimming with a 100-day supply of oil-Tokyo's insurance policy against an unforeseen crisis in the Middle East. At week's end Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira told subordinates that he was "gravely concerned" about upsetting relations with the U.S., which imports $26 billion worth of Japanese goods a year. He ordered the trading companies not to import more oil from Iran in the future than they did before the crisis...
...OHIRA and his squabbling LDP cronies have proved themselves incapable of that leadership. Their obsession with power plays and personal revenge, while hardly unusual for professional politicians, has torn their party apart. The LDP's Grand Guignol shocked a Japanese public accustomed to a veneer of unity and discretion...
...Ohira's shaky political mandate also dooms his proposal for a tax hike to correct Japan's mounting deficit. The deficit, combined with a high inflation rate and a sharp drop in the yen, may have grave consequences for an already strained U.S.-Japan economic relationship. Japan has already begun to stopper its yen drain. These economic pressures will certainly curb Japanese willingness to liberalize import restrictions at a time when John Connally is bellowing about letting the Japanese sit in their Toyotas on the docks of Yokohoma. The only possible Japanese concession to American opposition prevails and cuts...
Although Japan has prospered under the LDP, the nation has neglected some of the evils of rapid industrialization--pollution, increasing comptetition for higher education, overcrowding, inflation, substandard housing and a marked disparity in the economic security of the employees of large and small businesses. The LDP's political Ohira and his wounded party should stop playing Hatfield and McCoy; if not for Japan, for their own self-respect...