Word: shintaro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their policy papers. Never mind that one of the three candidates will become Prime Minister, succeeding Yasuhiro Nakasone, 70, when he steps down later this month after five years in office. No, the speculation immediately centered on which of the three -- Party Secretary General Noboru Takeshita, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe or Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa -- will be the best power broker, dispensing promises among the various factions that make up the L.D.P. The winner needs a majority of the 445 L.D.P. members in the Diet. "I do not think there are any contentious issues dividing us," said Takeshita...
...prospect was raised of an all-out economic war between the two nations. Last week, with the $300 million worth of sanctions in place, Japanese and American officials were scrambling to defuse tensions. As a prelude to Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone's visit to Washington this week, Special Envoy Shintaro Abe was dispatched to the White House to outline a plan to reduce Japan's $59 billion trade surplus with the U.S. Meanwhile, a U.S. delegation in Tokyo urged the Japanese to lower barriers to American goods...
...country's powerful Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), prepared to hie to Washington. His job: to convey dismay at the bombshell U.S. decision to retaliate with some $300 million worth of tariffs on a wide range of Japanese electronic goods. In addition, former Japanese Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe has been named as a special envoy by Tokyo to help deflect the trade collision. But the sanctions will almost certainly go into effect as scheduled on or about April...
Nakasone is not required to leave office until October. Not long ago he was rumored to be hoping for yet another extension. Now leading L.D.P. contenders for his job evidently smell blood. Last week former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, one of three likely successors to Nakasone, abruptly canceled a visit to the U.S. planned for April. Abe explained that he was needed to campaign for the L.D.P. in the local elections. He did not have to add that, for Nakasone, April could well be the cruelest month -- and not a good time for ambitious politicians to be out of town...
Fresh from his party's stunning parliamentary election victory, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone announced a wholesale shuffle of his Cabinet. After being reappointed Prime Minister by parliament, Nakasone last week replaced all but one of his 21 Cabinet officers. Two Nakasone rivals, Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe and Finance Minister Noboru Takeshita, were given top jobs within the Liberal Democratic Party hierarchy...