Word: shintaro
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...bitterly resent a new 3% national consumption tax, part of a reform package that will eventually reduce taxes. In several recent local elections, these issues have badly hurt the L.D.P., which has been in power continuously since the party's formation in 1955. No less partisan an observer than Shintaro Ishihara, a senior member of the party's right wing, admits that if elections were held now, "it would be suicide for the L.D.P...
Meanwhile, Roh Tae Woo moved confidently into his new role as President- elect. To help strengthen South Korea's relations with Japan, the former general met with Shintaro Abe, secretary-general of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, and chatted by phone with Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita. Roh promised to seek improved relations with China after he takes office on Feb. 25. Any warming between the two nations could reduce tensions between Seoul and Communist North Korea, a staunch Beijing ally...
...party vote, Takeshita, the consummate dealmaker, had realized there were no more deals to make. He reluctantly left the final decision to Nakasone, leader of the party. The Prime Minister might well have ignored Takeshita's party clout and chosen his rival, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, a politician cut from the same cloth as Nakasone. Finally, minutes after midnight, the verdict arrived: Takeshita would be the next Prime Minister...
That bloc worked to his advantage against his rivals for the prime ministership. While former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe could boast of wide- ranging international contacts and Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa could traipse through Japan's bureaucratic jungle blindfolded, Takeshita had the greatest leverage in the party itself...
...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...