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...Sing Tao Daily also alleged that an unnamed U.S. ambassador had acted from 1997 to 1999 as a go-between for Hashimoto and Akiyama to receive money from Taiwan...
...Lower House member. Under Koizumi's plan, the factions' grip on power was imperiled. Traditionally, Prime Ministers followed factions' wish lists for ministerial appointments; the largest group got the most positions. Koizumi ignored that, a move that particularly irritated the most powerful faction, headed by former Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto. As a result, the factions, supportive as they are of lucrative local projects and pricey bank bailouts, have fought back and continue trying to cement the loyalty of Diet members by promising to keep the gravy train running. Koizumi himself, though once a member of the second largest faction...
...offers the country one of its best shots at a medal in Salt Lake City. It's quite a comedown from four years ago, in Nagano, where the host team ski jumped and skated its way to five gold medals. This time, it's up to Miyake and Michiyo Hashimoto, 29, who recently finished first and second in a World Cup event. Hashimoto, an Osaka native, is also a relative newcomer to snowboarding; she took it up five years ago when she abandoned skiing to try extreme sports. "After the Olympics," says Hashimoto. "I hope to have a nice video...
...Miyake and Hashimoto both compete in the half-pipe, which entails surfing down the sides of a 120-m-long snow chute, vaulting high into the air, twisting, turning and flipping, then zipping down the slope again and up the other side, going back and forth, like a human pendulum. It looks like skateboarding in snow. Both profess, in the mantra of their sport, that having fun is more important than winning. Insists Miyake: "I don't know why the medal question keeps coming up all the time." If she wins, it will be one for the slackers, zero...
...Junichiro Koizumi is a career politician and a third-generation LDP man, the grandson of a former head of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and a former minister of Health and Welfare under the man he beat out in this election, Ryutaro Hashimoto. Yet Koizumi ran for prime minister in 1995 without support from the party faithful. He has wavy hair, fiery rhetoric, an ex-wife - not common in Japanese politics - and what seems to be a genuine passion for just the kind of free-market, tough-medicine reforms that Japan desperately needs after ten years in the economic...