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...Ryutaro Hashimoto has a credibility problem. While international-finance officials raced to rescue Indonesia and buck up South Korea last week, Japan's Prime Minister was struggling to restore confidence in his own country's cratering economy. Hashimoto delivered a State of the Union parliamentary address that was unique in its brevity and laserlike in its focus on emergency measures to stimulate growth and reinforce sagging financial institutions. "It is my unwavering determination," he declared, "to avoid at all costs a worldwide financial or economic panic originating in Japan." The Japanese financial markets gagged on that plea for confidence, plunging...
...With Emperor Akihito's visit to Britain forthcoming, Japanese P.M. Ryutaro Hashimoto apologized to Tony Blair for the mistreatment of British WW II POWs and offered their grandchildren a free year of study in Japan...
...European Union (E.U.). But the Japanese wouldn't budge. Five percent was their limit. So the U.S. delegation called Washington to report the impasse, and at 2 a.m. an exhausted Gore, still jet-lagged from his flight from Kyoto, got on the phone with Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. Gore praised Hashimoto for Japan's leadership in playing host to the conference and then pointed out how bad it would look for the host country to derail the agreement over a measly percentage point...
...financial institutions got so bad last week that dithering politicians finally had to act. The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.) managed to commit itself to a controversial, publicly financed $80 billion scheme to shore up the banks. But that is as far as it got. If Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto does not produce a rapid consensus on exactly how the money will be used or what drastic measures the government will take to resuscitate the economy, plummeting confidence will batter the markets further...
Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto last fall set up a series of deregulatory reforms that by 2000 would make the Japanese capital markets competitive with other foreign investors, according to Takasu, who is studying the topic for his senior thesis...