Word: shinkichi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That thin margin in the lower house will not allow Fukuda a luxury enjoyed by his predecessors: governing while ignoring the opposition. At a press conference last week, Fukuda stated: "I intend to work up a full dialogue with the opposition parties." University of Tokyo Political Scientist Shinkichi Eto only half jokingly muses that if "I were Fukuda, I'd be taking the opposition leaders to some nice quiet geisha house in Akasaka...
...apprehension underscored by the errant current lingers. "Our tomorrow is like a large elephant," says Businessman Kazuo Matsuoka, "and we are like blind people trying to figure out its proportions by touch." Tokyo's foremost futurologist, Professor Shinkichi Eto of Tokyo University, believes that he has some idea of the dimensions. Eto's projection: "The most probable course for Japan to follow will be for her to drop the growth rate [from 11.1% in the 1960s] to 5% in the 1970s. That level will be maintained through the '80s and '90s. By the final decade of this century, Japan will...
...Grand Vision. It is when they look beyond their shores that the Japanese find the world most troubling. Laments Shinkichi Eto, respected Tokyo University professor of political science: "Japanese leadership has no grand political vision, no long-range plan of national aims." That seemed not to matter very much through the long years of bipolar, East-West confrontation. "But now that the multipolar world is emerging," Eto adds, "the Japanese suddenly have no idea what they should...
There is no doubt that Japan will eventually recognize China. "The main thing," says Tokyo University Professor Shinkichi Eto, "is not to do anything that irritates Peking." To that end, Japan Air Lines and the Nippon Steel Corp., the country's largest steel producer, last week boycotted economic conferences with Taiwan, and five Japanese shipping lines decided to stop serving Chiang Kai-shek's island. Although two-way trade with Peking was less last year than with Taiwan ($825 million v. $955 million), it is a rare Japanese businessman who does not relish the prospect of 800 million...