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  '99 Peace issues
Ohira's remarks were contained in a previously classified telegram sent later the same day by Reischauer to U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk to report what was discussed during the breakfast meeting at the U.S. Embassy residence in Tokyo.
Ohira subsequently served as prime minister from December 1978 to June 1980, when he died at the age of 70.
Ohira then gave assurances that the Japanese government would continue to use the word ''mochikomu'' along the same line as the U.S. government's use of the word ''introduce,'' according to the telegram.
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  ohira masayoshi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ōhira Masayoshi (大平 正芳 March 12,1910 - June 12,1980) was a Japanese politician and the 68th Prime Minister from December 7,1978 to June 12,1980.
Late in 1978, Ohira was elected to the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and on December 7 he was appointed Prime Minister, succeeding Fukuda Takeo.
In the general election of 1979, the LDP narrowly failed to win an outright majority, but enough independent members of the Diet joined the party to enable Ohira to remain in office, and he was duly reappointed on November 9 of that year.
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 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Discovering Japan
During that week, as Ohira fought to regain power and form a government, the Japanese public got a fascinating glimpse of the depth and breadth of political divisions within the LDP and the potential obstructiveness of the system.
Ohira's chief rivals fought to unseat him with a passion fueled by personal enmity and ideological distaste for his alliance with Kakuei Tanaka, the former prime minister unseated after the press revealed the Lockheed airplane company's extensive bribery of government officials to gain contracts.
Ohira is also bound to Tanaka, who exacted a stiff fee in Cabinet posts for his key support.
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 Suzuki Zenko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He was appointed Prime Minister following the sudden death of Ohira Masayoshi, who died of a heart attack during a general election campaign.
The sympathy vote generated by Ohira's death resulted in a landslide for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), handing Suzuki the largest parliamentary majority any Prime Minister had enjoyed for many years.
He chose not to run for reelection to the presidency of the LDP in 1982, and was succeeded by Nakasone Yasuhiro.
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 Ohira Masayoshi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ōhira Masayoshi (大平 正芳 March 12 1910 - June 12 1980) was a Japanese politician and the Prime Minister from December 7 1978 to June 12 1980.
In general election of 1979 the LDP narrowly failed to win outright majority but enough independent members of Diet joined the party to enable Ohira remain in office and he was duly on November 9 of that year.
He died of a massive attack during the election campaign that followed was succeeded by Suzuki Zenko who led the LDP to its victory in fifteen years capitalizing on the vote generated by Ohira's death.
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 Masayoshi Ohira
Masayoshi Ōhira Masayoshi Ōhira (大平 正芳 Ōhira Masayoshi March 12,1910–June 12,1980) was a Japanese politician and the 68th and 69th Prime Minister of Japan from December 7,1978 to June 12,1980.
Late in 1978, Ohira was elected to the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and on December 7 he was appointed Prime Minister, succeeding Takeo Fukuda.
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 AllRefer.com - Masayoshi Ohira (Japanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Masayoshi Ohira (Japanese History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Masayoshi Ohira 1910–80, Japanese political leader, prime minister (1978–80) of Japan.
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 Masayoshi Ohira   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ōhira Masayoshi (大平 正芳 March12, 1910 - June 12, 1980) was a Japanese politician and the 68th Prime Minister from December 7, 1978 to June 12, 1980.
Late in 1978, Ohira was elected to the presidency of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and on December 7 he was appointed PrimeMinister, succeeding Fukuda Takeo.
In the general election of 1979, the LDP narrowly failed towin an outright majority, but enough independent members of the Diet joined the party to enable Ohira to remain in office, and he was duly reappointed on November 9 of that year.
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 Masayoshi Ohira -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
He was the first, and so far only, (A religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination) Christian to hold this office.
In the general election of 1979, the LDP narrowly failed to win an outright majority, but enough independent members of the (A prescribed selection of foods) Diet joined the party to enable Ohira to remain in office, and he was duly reappointed on November 9 of that year.
He died of a massive heart attack during the election campaign that followed, and was succeeded by (Click link for more info and facts about Zenko Suzuki) Zenko Suzuki, who led the LDP to its greatest victory in fifteen years, capitalizing on the sympathy vote generated by Ohira's death.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/masayoshi_ohira.htm   (241 words)

  
 Welcome to the MASAYOSHI OHIRA Memorial Foundation
The Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation was established on 29th of May 1985, five years after the late Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira’s unexpected death, donated by Mrs.
Shigeko Ohira and his second son Hiroshi Ohira, with the support of the economic world such as Gaishi Hiraiwa, Chairman of Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations).
The purpose of the foundation is to commemorate the achievement of late Prime Minister Ohira, to support academic studies and other activities on Pacific Basin Community Concept which forms an important part of Japan’s foreign policy, and thereby to contribute to development of the concept and the spread of the thought.
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 Ohira Masayoshi --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ohira was a converted Christian who rose from rural poverty and worked his way through what is now Hitosubashi University.
After graduation (1936), he pursued a career in the Finance Ministry and later (1952) was elected to the House of Representatives, holding his seat for 10 terms.
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 asahi.com : English : Column
Ohira was determined to stand by the United States.
In the face of this crisis, Ohira saw no choice but to prove his allegiance to the Americans by suspending oil imports from Iran-the oil Japan needed desperately.
Compared to Ohira's dilemma over the Olympic boycott, the SDF dispatch to Iraq is an incomparably serious matter.
www.asahi.com /english/column/TKY200406290205.html   (921 words)

  
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That May, Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira told his British counterpart, Richard Butler, that Japan wanted to create a situation in which Taiwan could keep its U.N. seat even after China joined the world body.
Butler insisted that to do so, it would be necessary for the Nationalist government in Taiwan to abandon the idea that it was the true ruler of all China.
Ohira, who later became prime minister, said Japan, in the final analysis, agreed with that view, but it would be premature to announce it as government policy.
www.taiwansecurity.org /News/2003/JT-251203.htm   (250 words)

  
 TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Shock of a Fallen Samurai -- Jun. 23, 1980   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Ohira's death was not expected to provoke any significant change in Japan's foreign policy and solidly pro-Western loyalty; Ohira himself had regularly reaffirmed it, with the full backing of his conservative Liberal Democratic Party.
Ohira had confidently planned to increase his party's strength in the Diet's 511-member lower house, but a candid speech about higher taxes provoked a slight loss instead.
To some Japanese, in fact, Ohira was just a stubborn bureaucrat, resisting disparate cries for change, but to many others he was a symbol of embattled principle.
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 Masayoshi Ohira --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A converted Christian who rose from rural poverty to serve as one of the great political leaders of Japan, Masayoshi Ohira held various posts within the Liberal Democratic party and served repeated terms in the Japanese legislature before ascending to the executive cabinet and, ultimately, the office of prime minister.
Before traveling to the United States to study in 1973, Masayoshi Son repeatedly tried to meet Den Fujita, president of McDonald's Corp. (Japan), Ltd., to seek his advice.
A prime minister of Japan who worked closely with the United States and other Western countries, Zenko Suzuki served 13 terms in the Japanese parliament before ascending to the office of prime minister.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9331871   (410 words)

  
 Memoirs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The second was Masayoshi Ohira, the Prime Minister of Japan during the later part of Carter’s presidency before his untimely death in 1979.
Ohira was a member of the Trilateral Commission during the Tokyo Summit in 1975 when he first met Carter.
On this trip Carter visited the Diet and was eager to meet with other government leaders, but they were not convinced it was worth their time to meet with him.
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 Zenko Suzuki at AllExperts
He was appointed Prime Minister following the sudden death of Masayoshi Ohira, who died of a heart attack during a general election campaign.
The sympathy vote generated by Ohira's death resulted in a landslide for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), handing Suzuki the largest parliamentary majority any Prime Minister had enjoyed for many years.
He chose not to run for reelection to the presidency of the LDP in 1982, and was succeeded by Yasuhiro Nakasone.
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That May, Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira told his British counterpart, Richard Butler, that Japan wanted to create a situation in which Taiwan could keep its U.N. seat even after China joined the world body.
Butler insisted that to do so, it would be necessary for the Nationalist government in Taiwan to abandon the idea that it was the true ruler of all China.
Ohira, who later became prime minister, said Japan, in the final analysis, agreed with that view, but it would be premature to announce it as government policy.
taiwansecurity.org /News/2003/JT-251203.htm   (250 words)

  
 Kakuei Tanaka - a political biography of modern Japan:
Ohira would have been Tanaka's choice, but the public wouldn't have been very tolerant of that and given Lockheed, Ohira probably had little desire to become an unpopular Prime Minister just to save Tanaka's neck.
However, in doing so, they were treading on thin ice for two reasons: first the LDP, as a party, could not afford a direct factional confrontation because any weakness would lessen their power in relation to that of the Socialists and other opposition groups.
Masayoshi Ohira became Prime Minister on December 1, 1978.
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 Yasukuni Shrine, Nationalism and Japan's International Relations
Although the enshrinement became public knowledge in 1979, then Prime Minister Ohira Masayoshi and Suzuki Zenko, Ohira's successor, visited the shrine as their predecessors did.
Ohira said, "I think that the judgment on Class-A war criminals or on the Greater East Asia War will be made by history," thus declining to express his own opinion on whether they were criminals.
Even after the fact that Class-A war criminals were enshrined at the shrine was made known, China did not protest publicly when prime ministers Ohira and Suzuki made successive visits to the shrine.
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 Total Quality Japanese: Dressing Down
Working in the Tokyo bureau of an American news agency, I was assigned to interview the politician Masayoshi Ohira (Oohira), who had been elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Ohira was busy with a previous appointment, the photographer and I sat down outside his office to wait.
Ohira's cabinet walked up to us and laid into us for doing what comes naturally to foreign correspondents, lounging around in our raincoats.
www.cic.sfu.ca /tqj/GettingRight/dressingdown.html   (1337 words)

  
 U.S. Plan For Nuclear Weapons Operations In And Around Japan During The Cold War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
On April 4, 1963, U.S. Ambassador Edwin Reischauer met with Japanese Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira to discuss the impact of the Security Treaty of 1960 on the presence of U.S. nuclear weapons in Japan.
During the meeting, Ohira not only admitted that he (and probably Japanese Prime Minister Ikeda) had no understood what the U.S. meant by "introduce," but acknowledged that it would not apply to nuclear weapons on ships.
Ohira added that if Japan was forced to explain the discrepancy sometime in the future, the "growing realization by [the] Japanese people of [the] necessity for nuclear defense would probably make [the] whole problem academic in three years or so."
www.nautilus.org /archives/library/security/foia/reisch63.html   (1520 words)

  
 Kakuei Tanaka - a political biography of modern Japan:
Under Sato, the LDP came to be characterized as one boss, four weaklings and one straggler.
As invaluable as Tanaka was to Sato, he truly believed that an elementary school graduate had no business aspiring to the Prime Ministership, and being omnipotent, Sato just assumed that this was understood within the party and even by Tanaka himself.
Ikeda, Sato, Ohira and Fukuda had been bureaucrats for Hideki Tojo, and Nakasone had served as a lieutenant commander in the Imperial Navy.
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 Ryutaro Hashimoto July 29 Japan Prime Minister of Japan January 11 Okayama Prefecture Nobusuke Kishi Keio University ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Following his father's lead, Ryutaro received his degree in political science from Keio University in 1960, and was elected to the House of Representatives of Japan in 1963.
He moved through the ranks of the Liberal Democratic Party over the next twenty years, landing a spot as Minister of Health and Welfare under premier Masayoshi Ohira in 1978, and in 1980 became the LDP's director of finance and public administration.
He again became a cabinet minister in 1986 under Yasuhiro Nakasone, and in 1989 became secretary general of the LDP, the highest rank short of prime minister.
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 Stars & Stripes: From the S&S archives: Carter, Hua meet after Ohira rites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The late Japanese Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira is remembered at a ceremony at Tokyo's Budokan Hall in July, 1980.
He said as he arrived that he was "both honored and saddened" to return to Tokyo for ceremonies honoring Ohira, who died June 12 — about a year after he, Carter and other world leaders gathered here for the 1979 Economic Summit Conference.
Eulogies were delivered by Ohira's colleagues in the ruling Liberal-Democratic (conservative) Party, then Carter got into solemn procession with other chiefs of state or prominent representatives — Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Thai Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda, Philippines first lady Imelda Marcos and Hua.
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