Word: saburo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration is particularly peeved about the help that the Japanese have been giving Iran. In Paris, Vance provided an earful of complaints to Japanese Foreign Minister Saburo Okita, who was in the city for a meeting of the International Energy Agency. A U.S. official charged that Tokyo has allowed Japanese banks to "go overboard" in helping Iran circumvent the financial problems caused by the assets freeze. In addition, he said, some Japanese trading companies have rushed "with unseemly haste" to buy 21 million bbl. of Iranian oil that had been destined for the U.S. before Carter halted oil imports from...
...Died. Saburo Eda, 69, a founder and former vice chairman of Japan's Socialist Party; of acute hepatitis; in Tokyo. Eda hoped that Japanese socialism would create an amalgam reflecting the Soviet Union's social-security system, Britain's parliamentary democracy and the U.S. standard of living. He urged his party to de-emphasize Marxian credos like class war and nationalization. But the party became increasingly radical and Eda left it last March, hoping to form his own more moderate group...
...Tatsuya Komatsu, Simul International, Inc.; Masao Kunihiro, Kokusai Shoka College; Teiji Makikawa, Fujitsu Ltd.; Isao Makino, Toyota Motor Sales Co., Ltd.; Jiro Mayekawa, Teijin Ltd.; Yohei Mimura, Mitsubishi Corp.; Masafumi Misu, Hitachi, Ltd.; Rihei Nagano, Kubota, Ltd.; Yoshio Narita, Yamaichi Securities Co., Ltd.; Yoshiro Neo, Sumitomo Shoji Kaisha, Ltd.; Saburo Oyama, Nippon Electric Co., Ltd.; Kazuo Saitoh, Sharp Corp.; Keizo Saji, Suntory Ltd.; Yutaka Sugi, Nippon Kogaku K.K.; Tomejiro Tanaka, Marubeni Corp.; Kazuo Ueda, Minolta Camera, Ltd.; Hiroko Yokoyama, Simul International, Inc.; Noboru Yoshii, Sony Corp...
...apologize. Kyoto University President Toshio Maeda, summoned to the Ministry of Education, bowed low to express regret and admit that he was "at a loss how to apologize to the nation for the fact that two of the three culprits have been students at our university." Education Minister Saburo Takami, in turn, apologized for shortcomings in the educational system, while Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda spoke of the dishonor to the nation...
...coincidence, while the money deal was being made at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, another conference was held at the Brookings Institution, half a mile away. There a group of twelve top economists -including Britain's Sir Alec Cairncross, Japan's Saburo Okita, and the U.S.'s Richard Cooper and C. Fred Bergsten-drafted a plan for a world monetary system that would accomplish precisely the goal that the Group of Ten rich nations agree is necessary but have done little to achieve. Central to the proposal is the creation of more IMF-managed reserves to replace...