Word: hosokawa
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...anything typified the gathering's sunny side, it was the hour-long session that Clinton held with Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa -- who flew directly from his own triumphant passage of political reform legislation that could have major consequences for the world economic order. The pair laughed, chatted amiably and spent 20 minutes in closed-door discussion. As Clinton said later, "This is a different government and a different time with, I think, different objectives for the internal economy of . Japan." The pair agreed to meet again on Feb. 11 to hash out new trade deals...
...Clinton-Hosokawa bilateral was just one highlight of the conference, touted as being of historic importance. That was hyperbole, but not in almost 40 years had so many Asian and Pacific heads of state gathered in one place. And while no dramatic decisions were taken, U.S. officials constantly repeated the mantra that "the event is the message" -- the mere fact that nations representing 40% of the world's annual trade had got together was an assertion...
EVER SINCE HIS JULY ELECTION, KNOWing oddsmakers had doubted that Morihiro Hosokawa could keep his promise to write corruption out of the unofficial rulebook of Japanese politics. Two Prime Ministers before him, Kiichi Miyazawa and Toshiki Kaifu, lost the job trying to accomplish that feat, and the Diet was full of wily politicians determined that Hosokawa would fare no better. But the doubters underestimated the extent to which the scion of an aristocratic landowning family was a politician of a new stripe. Nor did the skeptics anticipate that Hosokawa's unprecedented popularity would give him the authority he needed...
Under Prime Minister Hosokawa, the new Japanese government is making long overdue apologies to Korea for Japan's cruel subjugation of the Korean people during the colonial period. As a result, the two countries seem on the verge of abandoning their historic distrust and working together to lead the continuing industrialization of East Asia...
...would like to take this opportunity to offer anew our deep remorse and apologies for our nation's past acts of aggression." JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER MORIHIRO HOSOKAWA apologizing for World...