| | Japan - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | During the 1991 Gulf War, political unrest escalated as Prime Minister Kaifu proposed the establishment and deployment of Japanese UN peace keeping troops, however, no troops were sent due to constitutional difficulties over the military role, although the government provided billions of dollars in financial aid. |
 | | On March 6, 1991 the US Rice Council was threatened with arrest over a rice display at a Japanese trade show and forced to remove it that resulted in a letter of protest to the Japanese Agriculture Minister Motoji Kondo on March 21, 1991. |
 | | On Oct. 27, 1991 Kiichi Miyazawa was elected head of the LDP and succeeded Toshiki Kaifu as Prime Minister while in the same month finance minister Ryutaro Hahsimoto resigned over a securities financial scandal involving the Tokyo Stock Exchange. |
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