Word: takenaka
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...temporary. Japan Inc. has fixed many of the structural problems that snuffed out previous recoveries: deflation has slowed, banks have largely cleaned up their bad-loan portfolios, and successful company restructurings are on the upswing. At a press conference last week, Economic and Fiscal Policy Minister Heizo Takenaka claimed to be unfazed by the new numbers, calling them a "minor adjustment phase in an upward climb." If only Japanese consumers were convinced...
...with less." The specter of American consumers cutting back on spending because of steep increases at the gas pump may, in fact, pose a bigger danger to Japan than oil shortages. "As long as it's a short-term [price] rise, the economy can deal with it," said Heizo Takenaka, Japan's Financial Services Minister, at a recent press conference...
...most incendiary parts of Iraq. It's not hard, then, to imagine how a band of discontented Iraqis might target, say, an Asian medic or aid worker as a substitute for an American soldier. "The kidnapping [of the Japanese] is an attack on the U.S.-led coalition," says Chiharu Takenaka, a professor of international politics at Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama. "They know that America is too strong for them to deal with, so they're cutting off the weakest link...
...Does He Have What It Takes? Re "Koizumi's Second Act" [sept. 22], the Koizumi era heralds the beginning of image politics in Japan. Junichiro Koizumi has named new members to his Cabinet while leaving the key Minister for Financial Services and for Economic and Fiscal Policy, Heizo Takenaka, in place?a move that was seen as showing Koizumi's commitment to banking reform. Koizumi is a man of great integrity, but a lot will be expected from him if he is elected to a second term in November. Kazunari Iwamoto Ibaraki, Japan...
...ruling Liberal Democratic Party (and, thus, Prime Minister). As he tells it, the healthier statistics are proof that his structural economic reforms are working. As a sign of the increasing political capital that the rebound has provided him, Koizumi quickly shuffled his Cabinet, reappointing his controversial finance czar Heizo Takenaka and replacing the ailing 81-year-old Finance Minister Masajuro Shiokawa with Sadakazu Tanigaki, a younger, more reform-minded legislator...