Word: teijiro
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
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