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...respectively. Germany also pledged to send antiaircraft missile units to Turkey and defensive military equipment to Israel. Japan assigned five military C-130 transport aircraft to repatriate Asian workers fleeing the war zone. Yet so powerful is their nations' abhorrence of war that Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu risked political rebellion...
While Washington ducked the tax issue, Japan and Germany seemed willing -- if not exactly eager -- to consider new levies to help pay for the war. In Tokyo, Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu staked his political future on a request for Japanese lawmakers to allocate $9 billion to the allied campaign. The outlays would be in addition to $2 billion that Japan pledged before the fighting began. One plan to finance the new grant would combine borrowing with increased taxes on such items as gasoline, tobacco and alcoholic beverages...
...public opinion prevailed. Last week Japan's Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu was forced to abandon legislation that would have sent Japanese military personnel to the Persian Gulf under United Nations auspices to serve in noncombatant positions. Kaifu argued that the measure was designed to demonstrate Japan's commitment to the U.N. resolutions against Iraq. But the Japanese public remained unconvinced: a poll in the daily Asahi Shimbun showed 78% were against sending troops abroad...
...TOSHIKI KAIFU...
...response, Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu and his colleagues in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party rushed to soothe the country's concern. Ignoring catcalls and jeers from the opposition benches, Kaifu explained that the bill was merely a device by which Japan could "cooperate with the peace-promotion activities sanctioned by a U.N. resolution." The corps, he said, would "not use force or the threat of force," and he denied that he was trying to circumvent the constitution...