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...while, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone had seemed headed for a forced retirement. Both Japanese and international opinion makers predicted that his chances for a third term in office after this month's parliamentary elections were all but nil. After the Tokyo economic summit in May, Nakasone appeared to be in deep trouble, having failed to persuade Japan's major trading partners to cool off the country's overheated currency. Worse, Japan's $ gross national product recently declined by .5%, the first such drop in eleven years. His policies of "administrative reform," aimed at curbing exports, cutting government expenditures...
...nation, this voice of heaven, this voice of God . . ." Still, the victory was only a first step toward Nakasone's goal of extending his leadership for another two years. Now he must begin the tricky task of persuading his sprawling and splintered party to allow him a rare third term as party president, and thus as Japan's leader...
Nakasone's long-term strategy may mean that the Japanese economy is in for more rough times before the kinks work themselves out. In campaign speeches the Prime Minister promised to "make it possible for Japan to get set for the upcoming 21st century" by making good relations with his trading partners his No. 1 foreign policy goal. He has acknowledged that Japan's $61.6 billion trade surplus has sparked a worldwide protectionist outcry. He has said repeatedly that the Japanese must try to open Japan's normally inaccessible markets to world goods, though real progress has been slow. "Making...
...achieve his political aims, Nakasone must contend with his adversaries within the L.D.P. In his quest for a third term, the Prime Minister will have to persuade the other factions to allow him to change the tosoku, or party rules, which currently state that the leader of the L.D.P. must move on after two terms as party president. Since the head of the majority party is also Japan's Prime Minister, this regulation would force Nakasone out of both positions when his term as party president runs out at the end of October. When asked whether he plans to seek...
...Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, 62, and L.D.P. Executive Board Chairman Kiichi Miyazawa, 66 -- both prominent leaders of rival L.D.P. factions -- said that they would go along in principle with a brief extension of Nakasone's reign as party president, but objected to giving him a full, two-year third term. Confronted by the Prime Minister's impressive mandate at the polls, however, they may waver. Nakasone is a talented coalition builder, and he now has the undivided support of Japan's Western allies. By the fall, when the L.D.P. meets to plot its future, the Prime Minister could overcome...