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...Powerhouses like Toshiba, Fujitsu and Kyocera are the latest to shed staff, laying off tens of thousands of workers Koizumi's plan: Subsidies to companies that hire; more money for job retraining; recruiting young college grads and near-retirees to teach; a supplemental budget for public works spending Outlook: FAIR. Remedies aren't enough. Business failures, the global slowdown and banks calling in bad loans all mean more people will lose jobs...
...furious with the nationalistic tone of Koizumi's administration, his visit to the Shinto shrine that honors Japan's war dead and his tacit approval of a revisionist textbook that waters down wartime aggression Koizumi's plan: Use personal charm in diplomatic tete-a-tetes with Asian counterparts Outlook: POOR. Korea's Kim Dae Jung and China's Jiang Zemin have snubbed his overtures. They want concessions before they'll talk. Giving in would make Koizumi look bad at home...
...their pork-barrel politics. They'll be chipping away at his plans every chance they get Koizumi's plan: Act the populist and use every attack against his agenda as a way to garner even more support. Cram through reforms before people realize just how bad things are Outlook: GOOD. They can make life difficult for Koizumi, but they don't offer any appealing alternative...
...portfolio, foreign policy. She has infuriated career diplomats and bureaucrats and muffed some basic diplomatic forays Koizumi's plan: He can't dump her; she's too popular inside Japan. So he'll send her on more overseas trips and lean on her to tone down the trash talk Outlook: O.K. Nobody in Japan really cares about foreign policy, so Tanaka provides an entertaining, if raucous, diversion...
...domestic consumption is so weak that prices are falling and banks are sitting on mountains of bad debt Koizumi's plan: The central bank is in effect printing more money to try to stimulate the economy. Koizumi wants to force bad businesses to fail, meaning more short-term pain Outlook: POOR. His reform agenda is in peril because of the economic slide