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Article: EDITORIAL: Passing of a statesman.(Editorial)
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- Japan Times (Tokyo, Japan)
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- July 1, 2007
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Jul. 1--Former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa was a leader of postwar Japan's mainstream conservatism who strove to rebuild Japan while preventing it from retracing the militarist path. He died Thursday at 87.
Mr. Miyazawa joined the Finance Ministry in January 1942, one month after Japan went to war against the United States. In 1949 he became secretary to then Finance Minister Hayato Ikeda. As an aide to Mr. Ikeda while Mr. Ikeda was finance minister, a conservative party executive and then prime minister, Mr. Miyazawa took part in various Japan-U.S. meetings that helped shape Japan's postwar course -- including preparatory talks for the peace treaty with its ...