Word: junichiro
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...ended 56 years ago, and?despite its continuing cultural resonance?it's fair to wonder how much longer its shadow will shape our world. Already, the grip is loosening. Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi seems more prepared than any of his recent predecessors to assert Japan's national interests; if, as planned, he visits the Yasukuni shrine, a memorial to Japanese war dead, he would be the first Premier to do so in an official capacity. Gerhard SchrOder's government is explicitly committed to the idea that Germany can and should be a "normal" country, not one whose every move...
...playground. Last August a 15-year-old newspaper delivery boy stabbed six sleeping neighbors, killing three of them. Last December a 17-year-old boy went berserk in Tokyo's Shibuya district, assaulting seven strangers with a baseball bat. "These children are at their cutest, sweetest age," Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said after Friday's massacre. "How can we deal with the fact that our safe society is beginning to collapse...
...Tanaka is his very own muckraker, and the public can't get enough of him. He's probably the best symbol of a Japan desperate for leaders who are anything but the losers who mismanaged the country for the past decade. Like wavy-haired, bold-talking Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who revels in being nicknamed "weirdo," Tanaka got power by talking Big and talking New. Last September, six weeks before the prefecture's gubernatorial election, the newspaper diarist and award-winning novelist announced he was taking on the hand-picked successor of the Liberal Democratic Party stalwart who had held...
...JAPAN A History of History Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said his government would make no revisions to history textbooks in response to charges of inaccuracy. China and South Korea have both demanded extensive changes to a textbook, approved by Tokyo this year, which Beijing says "advocates imperialism and whitewashes Japan's history of aggression." Seoul objected to the book's justification of Japan's 1910-45 occupation of the Korean peninsula and demanded that 35 passages be revised. Tokyo argues that the book, to be prescribed next year for children aged 13 to 15, was approved by an education commission...
...tight echelon. He shakes hands, fires off a roomful of smiles and gestures toward his private office: "Let's talk." Perhaps he needs a moment to return some phone calls, to handle some paperwork? He has, after all, just come from an urgent meeting with new Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. "No." He turns and walks quickly into his tennis court-size office, rattling the orchid pots that sit next to his door. Takenaka-san is in a hurry...