The Economist (US), October 15th, 1994
Gunma's politics and budget are dominated by Liberal Democratic Party powers Keizo Obuchi and former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, whose campaign funds have always been dominated by agribusiness. The subsidization of declining silk, mulberry and timber industries is analyzed.
SOMETIMES there seem to be two Japans. There is the Japan that is said to be changing, its politics shifting from one-party rule to pluralism, its economy opening to foreign goods. But there is also a Japan where politicians are forever mired in cronyism, conspiring to protect vested interests against encroachment fr...
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