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...didn't even last the weekend. Starting with a nationally televised retreat from his pledge by Hashimoto on Sunday, Japanese officials have executed an impressive flip-flop. Hashimoto hadn't actually "used the words 'permanent tax cuts,'" said Deputy Chief Cabinet Minister Teijiro Furukawa, and Obuchi "didn't make a public promise." That rug-pulling sent both the yen and the Nikkei index tumbling in Monday's trading and left the rest of the world wondering whether any of Japan's promises to anxious U.S. officials over the past few months have been worth anything at all. It certainly doesn...
...seed had been planted. It could not be overlooked by such Big Business spokesmen as Munitions Minister Teijiro Toyoda, a Mitsui man. The Potsdam declaration invited him and his friends to take a practical look at what would be left of their properties if the homeland was invaded...
...Japanese, therefore, celebrated the anniversary last week with reserve. Foreign Minister Teijiro Toyoda made a speech in which he emphasized the peaceful character of Japan's designs, her desire, as an Axis partner, to prevent the extension of World War II. Since the pact was approved by Premier Prince Konoye and most of the present Cabinet, since it was blessed by the Son of Heaven, this was as far as a polite Japanese Minister could go in the way of saying that the pact did not mean anything...
...time -time that was pro-Russian and anti-Hitler-would be gained by negotiations, which would certainly be delicate, undoubtedly be long. Accordingly, talks were begun both in Washington, where Admiral Nomura and Cordell Hull met several times "outside the State Department," and in Tokyo, where Foreign Minister Admiral Teijiro Toyoda received the American who has the most savvy about and the most sympathy with Japan, Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew...
With consummate shrewdness Premier Konoye chose soft-spoken Admiral Teijiro Toyoda to be his new Foreign Minister. Admiral Toyoda was once naval attache in London; he attended the 1927 and 1930 naval conferences and lost popularity in Japan for his part in the signing of the 1930 Naval Treaty. The Japanese describe him as "a gentleman of the British type." His appointment could be expected to arouse British and U.S. hopes of a rapprochement with Japan while Japan prepared for action...
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