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...ASAHI SHIMBUN, JAPAN: "The passage of NAFTA . . . should be perceived as a warning bell to Japan, demanding an independent effort to save the world's free trade...
...Takeshita faction's Mr. Big until prosecutors caught up with him last March. Kanemaru stands trial next month on charges of failing to pay taxes on the millions he allegedly skimmed off illicit political donations. Largely because of Ozawa's close association with Kanemaru, the national daily Asahi Shimbun is less than impressed with the new group. "They attack the limitations of the L.D.P.," the paper noted last week. "But weren't they at the core of such a party until only yesterday? Weren't they all brought up by the master of all scandalmakers, Shin Kanemaru...
EXPLAINING to the Japanese newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun why he had not been promoted to grand champion, American-born sumo wrestler Konishiki said, "Strictly speaking, this is racial discrimination." By week's end, however, the 576-lb. idol backed down and said his remarks had been "misinterpreted...
Matsuyama, former editorial board chair of the influential Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, gave a speech entitled "Democracy in Japan, Democracy in America" as the honored guest at the annual Harvard Program on U.S.-Japan Relations' Distinguished Visitor's Dinner...
Though the damage was not great -- about 50 civilians killed and 90 buildings wrecked -- the demonstration of vulnerability infuriated the Japanese. ENEMY DEVILS STRAFE SCHOOL YARD, cried a headline in the Asahi Shimbun, which excoriated the "inhuman, insatiable, indiscriminate bombing." Several of the eight captured airmen were tortured to tell where they had come from, and three were executed by firing squad. Worse, the Japanese army tried to punish all Chinese who might have helped the downed pilots, and the slaughter in Chekiang and Kiangsu provinces took a toll estimated at more than 200,000. As often happened in this...