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...little. The situation reached its apex--or nadir, if you prefer--in the bidding for last year's Winter Games, won by Nagano. By 1991 Salt Lake City, always a suitable site and now represented by a savvy bid team, had grown to be an odds-on choice. But Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, then one of the world's richest men, had a dream: an Olympics in Nagano. "When I speak, 100 politicians jump" was his calling card. When he said he wanted to be president of Japan's Olympic committee, that group said sure. When he said he wanted to bring...
...course, governments in every country occasionally lie to their people. The difference is that in Japan this practice has long been acceptable. "The government is structured in a way that it regularly does not tell the truth," says Yoshiaki Yoshimi, a professor of history at Tokyo's Chuo University. "They simply demand our trust." Yoshimi made headlines several years ago when, after painstaking research, he documented the charge that during World War II the Japanese military had forced Chinese and Korean women into prostitution. Like other evidence of wartime atrocities, this is still denied by many in Japan, which, unlike...
Some Japanese officials are leaning toward using their military in disaster relief. Says Foreign Minister Taro Nakayama: "The Ground Self-Defense Force has many transport helicopters available, as well as technical units trained in disaster recovery operations. We should debate this." Yoshiaki Nemoto, a Japanese Red Cross official, agrees that the military, if forbidden to wage war abroad, could be used to better purpose. "The gulf war provided a rare chance for the Japanese to face the issue and make a step forward," says Nemoto. At present Tokyo tends to resist the idea as unrealistic. When the . world...
...Yoshiaki "seems less concerned about the family past," says a leading Tokyo business writer. He may not see his brother's steps onto his turf as significant. "It's no use comparing us. Our philosophies are different, and we are in different lines of business," Yoshiaki has said...
...Saison Group is branching out into hotels and what he calls the "comprehensive life-style" business. He wants customers at his stores to be able to buy a traveling bag, put it to use by booking a package tour, and take out a loan to pay for the journey. Yoshiaki has his own growth plans: he is looking at the expanding market in cable television and optical-fiber communications, in addition to more familiar resort-development projects at home and abroad. As they cross each ^ other's lines, will one brother decline to book tours to the other's hotels...