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...rubble of what was once the country's second busiest port, survivors waited stoically in line for hours for a small bottle of water and a fist-size ball of rice. Offers of help came from all over the world, and as each day revealed new horrors, Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama said that even in a country with a long history of earthquakes, the Kobe tragedy was "a disaster that nobody could even imagine." At week's end criticism was mounting against government relief efforts that were deemed too little and too late...
...foreign doctors seeking to treat victims of the quake, and reduced the income tax burden on residents who suffered the heaviest losses. But the measures did little to curb the clamor of the opposition New Frontier Party -- some of whose members are calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama...
President Clinton met with Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama in Washington to discuss trade. On the eve of the summit, Tokyo agreed to open parts of Japan's financial-services sector to American firms, giving them the chance to help manage some of the nearly $1 trillion in Japanese pension funds. American apples, meanwhile, made their debut on Japanese grocery shelves, where they sold briskly at prices of 78 cents to 98 cents apiece -- a bargain compared with the $1.28 to $1.58 levied for the homegrown variety...
President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama ended a quick Washington summit today by plugging the upbeat side of current U.S.-Japanese relations: joint support of the North Korean nuclear pact and the mini-breakthrough to allow U.S. apples onto Japanese shelves. The little-mentioned downside: The U.S. trade gap with Japan has grown, Clinton admitted, and "further progress must be made" to open Japan's markets to U.S. autos and auto parts, which account for nearly 60 percent of the deficit...
PRESIDENT CLINTON and several of his top aides have been grumbling lately about the quality of the information they are getting from the CIA on China, North Korea and, most recently, Japan. White House officials complain that the CIA led them to believe Tomiichi Murayama, the new Prime Minister of Japan, was an unreliable ideologue. But aides say Clinton found him to be "nonideological and very pragmatic." One intelligence official says the White House amateurishly expects too much and that "it costs a fortune to try and get" what it wants...