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Japanese officials rushed to keep the trade conflict from spinning out of control. Foreign Minister Tadashi Kuranari urged that "overall U.S.-Japanese relations should not be undermined by this issue." Makoto Kuroda, a senior member of the 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...
...called "general debate," an annual event which gives heads of state and government, foreign ministers and other officials of the 159-member world body a chance to deliver policy statements for their governments. Yesterday's speakers included British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe and Japanese Foreign Minister Tadashi Kuranari. Both expressed the hope for another superpower summit this year...
Meanwhile, Japan plunged into the sanctions debate. During a one-hour meeting in Tokyo between South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha and his Japanese counterpart, Tadashi Kuranari, Botha was told that Japan, one of South Africa's main trading partners, may apply punitive new sanctions unless Pretoria moves quickly to end apartheid...
...route back to the farm, Tadashi and I came to a crossroads Dosojin carved with compass directions...
Most potently of all Japanese symbols, these wayside stones reveal how life is a journey wherein the traveler sees that it is the earth itself on which paths cross and from which journeys proceed toward union with otherness. "Dosojin shows us the way," Tadashi said...