Were Tokyo to do otherwise it would be, at best, garnering the fleeting favor of its G-7 allies who are anxious to fob off onto Japan a substantial portion of the billions in new money flows promised to the former Soviet Union.
What this lookalike of a Star Wars battle station has to do with Tokyo's past is a mystery.
As O'Neill said in Tokyo, the Japanese do have the ability to act boldly and effectively when they resolve to do so.
Individual wards (self-governing Tokyo sub-divisions) do their best to meet needs, offering subsidized lunches for the elderly.
Many identify more with their contemporaries in Paris, Tokyo, Berlin and New York than they do with their own parents.
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Dr Mogi's job was to advise the prime minister on whether or not to declare a national emergency in the hours before a major earthquake was due to hit Tokyo, something he felt he could not possibly do.
"There is only so much you can do, " shrugs Maruyama Mie, a Tokyo nurse, who says she will prepare for the new millennium as she would for an earthquake, by purchasing a week's worth of necessities and getting copies of her financial records.
Back in Tokyo, some members of the opposition think that they can do business right through till next summer with the best prime minister the LDP never had.
Obama said, "We will ask our friends and allies to do their part, " including at a donors conference next month in Tokyo, Japan.
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Why do people thrive in such densely populated places as Manhattan Island, Hong Kong and Tokyo?
Would it do for the Japanese aircraft manufacturing industry what Detroit had done several decades earlier for Tokyo's then-nascent automobile industry?
Also, most people in Osaka do not commute long distances, so stations are not the shopping meccas they are in Tokyo.
"What the numbers tell us is that fiscal packages do have an impact, " says Kuribayashi Hiroshi, an economist with Barclays Capital in Tokyo.
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