Word: takemura
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rubin was furious at Daiwa for waiting six weeks to notify U.S. authorities of Iguchi's illegal activities; the trader told the bank about them in a letter in July. Rubin vented some of that ire last month in a 20-minute phone conversation with Japanese Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura, whose ministry had also learned of Iguchi's crimes but delayed informing Washington. Takemura expressed regret for the delay and promised it wouldn't happen again. After the U.S. action, the Finance Ministry moved promptly to discipline Daiwa...
...Berlin 12,000 angry youths threw eggs and tomatoes at a French cultural center. In Chile 10,000 protesters formed a human chain in a Santiago park. Thousands took to the streets in Sydney and Tokyo, while demonstrators in Manila burned a French flag. Japan's Finance Minister Masayoshi Takemura called the French action "crazy." Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating branded it "an act of stupidity." Chile and New Zealand recalled their ambassadors. The tiny Pacific island nations of Tuvalu, Nauru and Kiribati broke off relations with Paris. Washington showed more restraint, expressing "regrets," while Bonn and London refrained from...
...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...