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Talk of a bailout has enraged Japanese voters. For three weeks opposition legislators blocked entrances to the budget-committee room of the Diet, Japan's legislature. They picked up their cushions and departed last week only after Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto agreed to extend debate on what had been a no-questions-asked $6.85 billion bailout of the housing-loan companies...
...back on my land," Chibana said. "In the end, we will win." The Japanese government is not letting Chibana return, citing the U.S.-Japanese security relationship. Chibana led thousands of protesters this weekend outside his land at a U.S. Navy communications center, causing a potential embarrassment for Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. Hashimoto wants to quiet anti-U.S. military sentiment before President Clinton visits Japan later this month. "If Okinawans start demonstrating when Clinton is here like they did in October, this could backfire in Hashimoto's face," TIME correspondent Irene M. Kunii says. More than one million people demonstrated...
...RYUTARO HASHIMOTO, WHO BECAME Japan's Prime Minister last Thursday, is not the typical Japanese politician. With his good looks, sideburns and slicked-back hair, he is a sex symbol. He once greeted U.S. trade negotiators wearing a green leather suit. And in a culture in which the supreme recreational passion is golf, Hashimoto likes scaling mountains (he was part of two Everest expeditions) and has practiced kendo, a Japanese style of fencing, on the roof of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry headquarters in downtown Tokyo...
Surprising even members of his own government, Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama resigned. Murayama will probably be replaced by Ryutaro Hashimoto, the current Trade Minister, who earned a reputation as a tough negotiator during talks on auto imports with the U.S. last summer...
TOKYO: Only hours after lawmakers elected Ryutaro Hashimoto prime minister, the agressive new Japanese leader was challenged for the top job by his chief rival, Ichiro Ozawa. Ozawa called for new elections to put Hashimoto's government to a popular vote. The vote could occur anytime between April and the end of 1997. "Hashimoto's Liberal Democratic Party is eager to avoid elections for the time being, but Ozawa is pressing hard for them," reports Tokyo bureau chief Edward Desmond. "There have been four governments since the 1993 elections, and the press and many politicians feel that it's time...