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...central role is being played by the Prime Minister of Japan. For now that's a politician named Yoshiro Mori who fell into the job when the previous Prime Minister, the good-natured Keizo Obuchi, unexpectedly suffered a stroke in April of last year. Five senior politicians of Obuchi's venerable Liberal Democratic Party met behind the ornate screens in Tokyo's Akasaka Prince Hotel to decide which of them would get the top job. The Gang of Five, as they are known, hurriedly picked Mori without consulting the rest of the party, much less the nation...
...highest level scrambled to calm the passions?but with little effect. All week long the phone lines between Tokyo and Washington buzzed with American apologies?from President George W. Bush and a host of senior officials. But the man at the other end of the line, Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, himself is lacking credibility. "He is beyond contempt," says Yoshifumi Oshita, 26, a graduate of the Uwajima Fisheries High School. "I want the Japanese government to make a proper complaint to America but I don't think Mori...
...billion-dollar war machine and its highly trained crew could blunder so badly. Beyond the loss of four 17-year-old students, two teachers and three crew members, the Feb. 9 collision has shaken relations between the U.S. and Japan. And it has knocked Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori?who made the mistake of continuing a round of golf after getting the news?into political peril...
...Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori came under attack from members of both his governing party and the parliamentary opposition for his decision to continue with a game of golf after hearing the news that the U.S.S. Greeneville collided with and sank the fishing trawler Ehime Maru off Hawaii. Nine people are still missing and feared dead. It is the latest in a series of gaffes that have made Mori one of the most unpopular Prime Ministers ever. Lawmakers in the three-way governing coalition are nervous about the threat of a thrashing in an election for the parliament's upper...
...billion-dollar war machine and its highly trained crew could blunder so badly. Beyond the loss of four 17-year-old students, two teachers and three crew members, the Feb. 9 collision has shaken relations between the U.S. and Japan. And it has knocked Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori--who made the mistake of continuing a round of golf after getting the news--into political peril...