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...Tuesday night in Nishinomiya, Lieut. Tsutomu Fujii and 10 of his men from the Japanese Self-Defense Forces were digging away in such a ruin. They toiled through a frigid night lighted only by a full moon, while the daughter of the house stood nearby, sniffing back tears. Eventually they excavated her parents, gently placed their bodies on litters cobbled out of a broken door and a kitchen counter, and loaded them on a truck headed for a makeshift morgue. Lieut. Fujii had dug out seven corpses since morning, turning him into something of an instant expert. ``That couple seems...
...hand forced by a looming no-confidence vote he was nearly certain to lose, Japanese Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata announced his resignation just two months after he took office. Reflecting recent political turmoil, Hata's successor will be Japan's seventh PM since...
...bicycle. The assailant then slashed her school uniform with a pair of scissors. That assault was one of more than 120 verbal or physical attacks reported in Japan by Chongryun since April. Though Japanese police put the total much lower, the issue has alarmed Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata, who condemned the incidents as "intolerable." Said a 78-year- old Korean woman who has lived in Japan for more than 70 years: "These attacks are crazy. Those children have committed no crimes. If the Japanese people want to protest against the North Korean regime, they should do so openly." Most Japanese...
Japan's two largest political parties failed to agree on a new prime minister, leaving the country adrift two days after Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata's resignation. The policy gap between the three blocs squabbling for power -- Hata's coalition, the conservative "Liberal Democrats" and the Socialists -- was so great that they could not even agree on when to hold more talks. Hata, meanwhile, stays on as caretaker and looks to be the second consecutive lame-duck premier Japan will send to the G-7 economic summit, to be held July 8 in Naples. The P.M.'s fall is considered...
...Prime Minister Tsutomu Hata named a Cabinet but acknowledged as he did so that solving such vexing problems as tax reform and trade hassles with Washington would not be easy for a government built on a minority coalition. As one Democratic Socialist legislator put it, "It can't get any worse than this...