Word: takemura
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Dates: during 1993-1993
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...main strategist and political ally, Ichiro Ozawa, for a more "normal" Japan, meaning a country that can participate readily in military actions mandated by the United Nations or its own allies. Within the Hosokawa coalition, on the other hand, many, including the Prime Minister and chief Cabinet Secretary Masayoshi Takemura, are more at home with Japan's current antimilitary constitution. Predicts Masaharu Gotoda, a senior L.D.P. politician: "Japan will undergo another political reorganization before the next election. All the parties will gradually cluster around two large political forces...