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...getting ITER" over the rival site of Rokkasho-Mura in northern Japan. Then E.U. and Japanese negotiators produced a "technical agreement" that French Deputy Minister for Research François d'Aubert said "may lead Japan to decide not to host the reactor." But Japan 's Science Minister Toichi Sakata insisted that "the question of the ITER site has not been resolved," calling Chirac's comments "inappropriate." Officials from the E.U., which along with Russia and China backs France 's bid, also shrugged, saying agreement on the location isn't expected before July. But there is a consolation prize...
...directly into change where the rest of the world is concerned. Rearranging seats in the lower house of the Diet will lead only slowly, if at all, to new directions in the country's economic policies and social priorities. "I will believe in this talk of reform," says Makoto Sakata, a prominent Tokyo business writer, "when parties take up really fundamental issues like karoshi ((death from overwork)) and unpaid overtime...
Other potential successors to Takeshita include former Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda, 84; ex-Deputy Prime Minister Shin Kanemaru, 74; Masaharu Gotoda, 74, who served as key aide to former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone; and Michita Sakata, 72, speaker of the House of Representatives...
...Prime Minister's scheme appeared to have collapsed early in May, when House Speaker Michita Sakata attached a rider to a court-ordered reapportionment bill requiring a waiting period that effectively postponed lower-house elections for 30 days. The delay prevented Nakasone from dissolving the lower house in time to call new parliamentary elections...
...Sakata is trying to build a new Japanese consensus on defense. He hopes to meet with U.S. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger in August to discuss realistic options for Japan's military future in case of a war in Korea...