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...week withdrew plans to display artifacts and photos of the devastation caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Instead visitors will see the fuselage of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress plane that flew the Hiroshima mission, and a videotape of its crew. While Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama called the decision ``regrettable,'' Hiroshima survivor Koshiro Kondo was more emphatic: ``We had hoped that the feelings of the people of Hiroshima might have gotten through to the American people...
...visit to the stricken city, stopping at a site where many had died to place a bouquet of daffodils from the gardens of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo. Their tour of the disaster area was delayed two weeks, so as not to interfere with rescue operations. Though Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama got a cool reception when he was in Kobe 48 hours after the temblor, seeing their Emperor and Empress was a symbol of hope for most quake survivors...
...same time, critics last week were still denouncing Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's management of the disaster for gross incompetence, lack of preparedness and bureaucratic bungling. His government remained reluctant to take help from the outside. Offers poured in from 60 countries, the U.N. and the European Union, but Japan accepted aid from only 15 of them. Tokyo also turned down most offers of help from the U.S. military based in the country, though the American forces have tons of emergency supplies stockpiled and even offered to accommodate refugees aboard an aircraft carrier. Teams of doctors from...
Earthquake Recriminations The Japanese government's torpid response to the Jan. 17 catastrophe in Kobe (5,090 dead, 29 still missing and about 300,000 homeless) has led to intense criticism of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama--even from members of his own Socialist Party. Offers of assistance from 60 countries, the U.N. and the World Health Organization poured in, but some were subjectedto endless bureaucratic wrangling. Examples: foreign doctors were rebuffed at first because they did not have Japanese licenses; Swiss sniffer dogs were threatened with quarantine by the Agriculture Ministry. Conditions in the stricken port city, however, are improving...
...complaint, even in a society that shuns direct attack, is finding echoes in high places. Yokohama Mayor Hidenobu Takahide, a former construction-ministry official, says baldly, ``The problem is that the government did not exert leadership.'' In a speech to the Diet, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama pledged that his government would ``waste no time in taking every necessary fiscal and financial measure'' to help rebuild the devastated area. But when he suggested that the relief effort had faltered because of the quake's unprecedented severity, loud jeers rang out from the opposition benches. It was widely reported that Murayama...