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...APPOINTED. HEIZO TAKENAKA, 51, Japan's reform-minded Minister of State for Economic and Fiscal Policy, to the additional post of Financial Services Minister; in Tokyo. The dapper ex-professor's promotion is seen as a sign of renewed determination by Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi to reduce the mountain of bad loans held by Japan's banks...
...activities, EMI hopes to swing even when CD sales aren't winning. BANKING "Opening The Lid" In Japan Heizo Takanaka must have the most stressful job in Japan - not easy in a country where train drivers have committed suicide for falling one minute behind schedule. Last week Prime Minister Junichiro Koizuimi fired Financial Services Agency chief Hakuo Yanagisawa, who opposed injecting capital into Japan's debt-laden banks, and named the reform-minded Takanaka to take the country's top economic post. Takanaka said he wants "to open the lid and see what's inside" the world's second-largest...
...North Korea and Japan. North Korea's Stalinist regime had consistently denied that it had anything to do with a series of disappearances in Japan two decades ago. No longer. In a stunning about-face, North Korean President Kim Jong Il confessed at a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi last week in Pyongyang that his country's spies had indeed abducted 13 Japanese citizens from 1977 to 1983. He blamed the kidnappings on special-forces agents "carried away by a reckless quest for glory," apologized for their actions and assured Koizumi that they had been punished. (Kim, according...
...North Korea and the U.S. broke down, the Bush administration last week agreed to send an envoy to Pyongyang for talks on its missile development program and tensions on the peninsula. In September, Kim apologized to Japan for abducting 13 Japanese citizens during a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi?the first time Pyongyang has ever acknowledged the kidnappings. Kim also resumed a delayed effort to connect a railway between North and South Korea...
...North Korea and Japan. North Korea's Stalinist regime had consistently denied that it had anything to do with a series of disappearances in Japan two decades ago. No longer. In a stunning about-face, North Korean President Kim Jong Il confessed at a summit with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi last week in Pyongyang that his country's spies had indeed abducted 13 Japanese citizens from 1977 to 1983. He blamed the kidnappings on special-forces agents "carried away by a reckless quest for glory," apologized for their actions and assured Koizumi that they had been punished. (Kim, according...