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...reason Sousuke Uno got the Prime Minister's job in the wake of the Recruit influence-peddling scandal was that he was widely regarded as Mr. Clean. Last week that reputation was impugned from an unexpected quarter: a former geisha who claimed to have been his lover. SCOOP: A SCANDAL INVOLVING PRIME MINISTER UNO, shrieked a headline in the weekly magazine Sunday Mainichi. In an interview, the 40-year-old, otherwise unidentified former geisha said Uno paid her about $21,000 during a five-month affair that began in October 1985. She portrayed Uno as bullying and self-aggrandizing...
...latest chapter in Japan's influence-peddling scandal came to a close last week as Foreign Minister Sousuke Uno was named Prime Minister. Uno replaces Noboru Takeshita, who resigned to save his ruling Liberal Democratic Party from further embarrassment over the scandal. Uno promised political reform and pledged to "regain the confidence of the people...
...have a way to go. Opposition leaders and some L.D.P. members have criticized the choice of Uno, a former member of the faction led by ex-Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, during whose administration (1982-87) the Recruit Co. helped line politicians' pockets by offering to sell them stock in its real estate subsidiary at reduced rates before it went public. The next chapter of the Recruit scandal may be written when voters go to the polls next month to fill 126 seats in the upper house of the Diet...
Critics of Super 301 fretted that the tactics might backfire, provoking retaliatory measures from a Japan that is tired of being blamed for U.S. economic ills. The rumblings from Japan were ominous. Foreign Minister Sosuke Uno called in newly appointed U.S. Ambassador Michael Armacost to protest Japan's inclusion on the list. "As a result of many market-opening measures, the Japanese market has now become wide open," he insisted. "None of the identified ((restrictions)) can be considered to constitute trade barriers...
...arrived at Pizzeria Uno's Sunflower Cafe (22 JFK St.), with its relatively mellow, boring atmosphere. We had often stuffed our faces with pizza upstairs, but we had never ventured into the depths of the building, because we knew the bar there carded. But tonight, with legal driver's licenses in hand, we went downstairs...