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...Yasu Itoh, owner of Japanese restaurant Tampopo and a long time friend of Kotobukiya’s owner, echoed Tanaka’s concern. But he said he had five years left on his lease and so was not concerned for his restaurant’s security...
...unlike the meetings between Nakasone and Ronald Reagan, who called each other Ron and Yasu, the Bush-Takeshita encounter produced few signs of rapport that could help defuse a new outbreak of tensions. The two appeared stiff and uncomfortable as they stood side by side in the White House Rose Garden after a lackluster working lunch with senior advisers. Said Bush, who will return the visit later this month when he attends the state funeral for Emperor Hirohito: "Simply put, we respect one another. We need one another." Replied Takeshita: "In your words, the new breeze is blowing, Mr. President...
...leaders are old friends who have fallen on the hardest times of their political lives. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone calls the American President "Ron," and Reagan calls the Japanese leader "Yasu." Thus Nakasone last week hoped to get a sympathetic welcome when he arrived in Washington for talks with Reagan aimed at defusing tense trade troubles between the two countries. Nakasone fully understood the importance of the trip, which he grandly described as the "most important journey ever made to Washington by a Japanese Prime Minister." As he jetted toward Washington, the Prime Minister read a book about Prince...
...Japanese microchips to foreign buyers, business will probably go on as usual. Already some American enterprises dependent upon inexpensive Japanese chips are busy looking for legal loopholes to exempt them from the U.S.-Japanese semiconductor agreement signed last year. In the meantime, tensions show no sign of abating. When Yasu calls on his friend Ron at the end of the month, the atmosphere is likely to be cordial but strained...
They call each other Ron-san and Yasu. That is only fitting, since Ronald Reagan and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone describe each other as good friends. So when they met for the fifth time, at the sleek Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles last week, their wide-ranging talks were amicable, leading to what Nakasone described as "complete agreement on all issues." Actually, the two leaders were able to reach only a vague accord on the stickiest issue of all: what the Japanese call boeki masatsu, or trade friction, and what American manufacturers call by less euphemistic epithets...