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Behind the Screens
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CURRENT ISSUES
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11 / 1990 |
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Interview With Tetsuo Kondo, Sadako Ogata, and Akiyuki Konishi
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From behind the unseen screens of Japan's government, its tightly knit business community, its public, and its culture, The World & I presents Japan unabashed: a frank view of its country, as well as the United States and the world today.
The discussion participants included Tetsuo Kondo, Liberal Democratic Party member of the Diet (Japan's parliament) representing Yamagata and a former vice minister of finance in the Diet responsible for economic planning who also specializes in science and technology issues; Sadako Ogata, professor of international relations at Sophia University in Japan and former minister to the Japan mission at the United Nations in New York; and Akiyuki Konishi, former editor in chief of the Mainichi Shinbun, Japan's third largest newspaper, and now Mainichi's special correspondent in Washington, D.C. Current Issues editor Laurie Burras conducted the interview.
THE WORLD & I: Some Japan scholars have suggested that the Japanese study decline, such as the Kennedy theory and others, in order to avoid it. What secrets have the Japanese Learned?
OGATA: The Kennedy book was very popular. That's true. The Japanese wanted to figure out how the United States was going to move in the future. But I don't think the Japanese are worried too much about declining yet, because they are thinking more in terms of still becoming a bit more global than before. We are still growing.
Japanese economic influence, and maybe some political weight accompanying that economic influence, used to be very much limited to the Asia-Pacific region. But I
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