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...They may have gone on their own, but they must consider how many people they caused trouble to." YASUO FUKUDA, Japanese government spokesman, justifying the government's deliberations over whether to bill the freed hostages for their flights home...
...ARRESTED. YASUO TAKEI, 73, founder and chairman of Japan's largest consumer-credit firm, Takefuji, and the country's second richest man; for breaching Japan's telecommunications laws when he allegedly ordered his staff to wiretap the phone of a freelance journalist who published articles critical of him; in Tokyo. Takei's family fortune is estimated to be worth about $5.3 billion. His company Takefuji has also come under legal scrutiny for its alleged hardball debt-collection methods and for overworking its employees...
...unpredictable North. To President George W. Bush, those might seem good reasons to expect help in Iraq from two Asian friends. But last week, a day after the suicide attack in the southern Iraqi town of Nasiriyah that killed 31 people, including 18 Italians, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda said Japan was suspending plans to dispatch its Self-Defense Forces (S.D.F.) to Iraq by the end of the year. "We could send troops if the circumstances permit," he said. "But they do not." Around the same time, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun told his Cabinet to limit...
...appears to be a whole different ball game in the provinces. The re-election on Sept. 1 of Yasuo Tanaka as governor of Nagano prefecture is a sign that, at long last, Japanese democracy is coming of age. Citizens are tired of pork-barrel construction projects and politics as usual. So they are handing power to leaders who seem genuinely committed to doing things differently...
...Ominously for mainstream parties, most of these leaders are fierce independents. "It may be rude to say it," observes Kitagawa, "but in the case of Chiba's Akiko Domoto, Nagano's Yasuo Tanaka, and myself as well, 'weirdos' became governor." Asano and Domoto both refused all party endorsements, yet won handily. Staying unattached and "weird" means freedom from the smoky backroom culture that is smothering Koizumi. Governor Asano wrote to candidate Domoto, "Please don't think of nonaffiliation as a means to gain advantage in the election. It's not a means; it's a policy...