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Although the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party lost the parlimentary majority it has enjoyed for 20 years, Sunday's, election--which may unseat Prime Minister Takeo Miki--will probably not affect Japanese policy, experts on Japan said yesterday...
...majority of Japanese, though, joined Premier Takeo Miki in offering gokurosama (special thanks) to the shy, scholarly Emperor for his long reign. In Tokyo, Hirohito responded by recalling the pleasant and sad memories of 50 years, mentioning especially his grief for "the great number of victims of the last war and their families...
...Clean. Disclosures about Lockheed bribes at the Church committee hearings in the Senate last winter galvanized many Japanese into feeling that wrongdoing in Japan could not simply be ignored. Then Takeo Miki, Tanaka's successor as Premier, promised to "get to the bottom of the affair." Though the pledge was dismissed by many in the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (L.D.P.) as "pious hogwash," Miki's determination was genuine. In part, this was because Miki could only enhance his image as the "Mr. Clean" of Japanese politics by giving free reign to the Lockheed prosecutors, while his longtime...
...best in small groups, enhanced his status as a world statesman last week by playing the charming and well-briefed host to British Prime Minister James Callaghan, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Italy's lame-duck Premier Aldo Moro, Japanese Premier Takeo Miki and Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau...
...been slow, and the government's attention has been diverted from important economic matters by the Lockheed bribery scandal (marked last week by the arrest of four businessmen). But now a surge in exports, including sales to the U.S., is brightening the picture. Last weekend, Prime Minister Takeo Miki was able to report to President Ford and five other world leaders at their economic summit in Puerto Rico encouraging evidence that the Japanese economy is finally, if spottily, perking...