Word: yukio
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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Japanese journalist Yukio Matsuyama criticized Japanese democracy as "feudalistic" in a dinner speech last night at the Faculty Club. But Matsuyama also said that American democracy's emphasis on confrontation has destroyed part of the U.S. government's strength as well...
...Japanese seem ambivalent about the escalating tensions with America. "Japan's view of the U.S. is in a dangerous balance," says Yukio Okamoto, a former Foreign Ministry official who heads his own consulting firm in Tokyo. "The feeling that Japan needs to cooperate with the U.S. still remains strong, but at the same time there is a sense that the U.S. is being selfish and blaming everything on Japan." To a large extent, Japanese who lived through World War II, now in their mid-50s and older, feel indebted to the U.S. People in their 40s tend...