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...surprise election yesterday of Masayoshi Ohira to replace Takeo Fukuda as prime minister of Japan may result in some subtle shifts in Japanese policy, but will probably not cause any major changes, Harvard Asian experts predicted yesterday...
...Ohira, the 68-year-old secretary general of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party, was characterized by experts as somewhat more moderate than Fukuda, who has been prime minister since...
While stressing that the policies of Ohira and Fukuda were very similar, the experts said that there would probably be some changes...
Patrick Maddox, the director of external affairs for the Council on East Asian Studies, said that during Ohira's "honeymoon period, there may be some concessions in foreign trade negotiations with the U.S. that might not have happened otherwise...
...among the L.D.P.'s half-dozen factions in a bid to succeed Miki. Their rivalry became so bitter that they maintained separate national headquarters during the three-week campaign and kept up a running feud that badly damaged L.D.P. prospects. One possible compromise choice is Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira. Miki is genuinely convinced that radical reforms are needed to refurbish the L.D.P.'s image. His diagnosis: "The party caused its own defeat because we failed to reflect deeply on our past mistakes...