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- <text id=93TT1443>
- <title>
- Apr. 19, 1993: Cabinet Work
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 19, 1993 Los Angeles
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 19
- WORLD
- Cabinet Work
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>After the political maneuvering, Japan gets a new Foreign Minister
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- <p> For a few hours, it looked as if Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa
- would weaken his political opponents in a shrewdly orchestrated
- maneuver. When Michio Watanabe, 69, announced he would resign
- from his post of Foreign Minister owing to poor health,
- Miyazawa offered the position to former Finance Minister Tsutomu
- Hata. Hata heads a rebellious faction in the ruling Liberal
- Democratic Party and has hinted that he might create a new
- party. Miyazawa apparently thought he could distract Hata from
- his cause by luring the renegade into his Cabinet with a
- prestigious post. Hata, however, declined the offer, saying he
- wanted to "stay in the field to pursue political reform." The
- post then went to a former Trade Minister, Kabun Muto, whose
- appointment is unlikely to change Japan's foreign policy.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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