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...Tokyo. Koyama quit after being arrested on suspicion of taking $170,000 in bribes from an insurance foundation in return for comments he made in favor of the group's activities. Murakami stepped down to take responsibility for this latest in a series of scandals to plague Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's government...
...noted in your item about Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori [NOTEBOOK, Nov. 6], he keeps making misstatements. Sensible people here have lost patience with Mori's repeated irresponsible remarks about missing Japanese allegedly having been abducted by North Koreans. Why did we ever choose him as Prime Minister? His statements are rubbing neighboring nations the wrong way and undercutting the progress made since World War II. TAKESHI MIZUGUCI Toki, Japan...
Last week's failed attempt to drive Japan's Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori from office got its start at a private dinner among Tokyo's media elite. On November 6, reformist lawmaker Koichi Kato had dinner with the publisher of Japan's largest-circulation daily and four political pundits at the tony Okura Hotel. Kato had sipped "three or four bottles of sake," according to two of his companions, when he was asked if he would support a reorganization of government ministries under Mori. "No," Kato said. "I won't let Mori reshuffle the cabinet." Kato, a member of Mori...
American voters disheartened by their choice should consider the poor Japanese, who have suffered through 14 sad-sack Prime Ministers since 1988. And before George W. or Al is sworn in, they may get No. 15. That's because the current leader, the tin-tongued YOSHIRO MORI, has bumbled big time into the high-stakes diplomatic drama on the Korean peninsula...
...YOSHIRO MORI: Large and bold writing, indicating one who stands up for what he believes in. The thick, dark strokes reveal someone who enjoys attention...