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Deutsch Incorporated, an advertising agency, recently ran television ads for New York City Pontiac dealers featuring the words of Yoshio Sakurauchi, a Japanese politican who made disparaging remarks about the quality and motivation of American workers. Sakurauchi's comments were set against the menacing background of a rising sun--hardly a subtle allusion...
...growing enmity is not entirely one-sided. Yoshio Sakurauchi, a veteran politician who heads the prestigious but largely ceremonial post of speaker of Japan's House of Representatives, said last week that "the root of the ((trade)) problem lies in the inferior quality of U.S. labor. The American worker doesn't work enough but wants high pay. About one-third can't even read." (In fact, about 15% of the adult work force would be considered functionally illiterate, meaning that they are unable to adequately perform in their job.) Stooping to Sakurauchi's level of discourse, Michigan Senator Donald Riegle...
...scrutiny of the U.S.'s multibillion-dollar farm programs. Said Denmark's Foreign Minister Uffe Ellemann-Jensen: the U.S. is "trying to get us to give up a lot without giving anything in return." In the transatlantic dueling, the Japanese were overlooked, and Foreign Minister Yoshio Sakurauchi went unchallenged as he blandly pronounced his nation's largely inaccessible market "one of the most open in the world...