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Jumping Into the Fray.(Nobuteru Ishihara)

Newsweek International

| October 06, 2003 | Wehrfritz, George; Takayama, Hideko; Itoi, Kay | COPYRIGHT 2003 Newsweek, Inc. All rights reserved. Any reuse, distribution or alteration without express written permission of Newsweek is prohibited. For permission: www.newsweek.com. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Ritual was meant to command the day. Japan's newly appointed Land, Infrastructure and Transport minister, 46-year-old Nobuteru Ishihara, stood in his office last Thursday afternoon as some 60 public- corporation chiefs entered, one after another, to intone the formal salutation, Yoroshiku-onegaishimasu. The script called for mutual bowing and a quick exit; in and out in 30 seconds for each gray-suited man in line. Yet with Haruho Fujii, president of the quasi-governmental Japan Highway Public Corp., the young minister broke protocol briefly to discuss pressing business. "We have to talk," Ishihara told the veteran company boss, who turns 67 this week. "I want to hear your ...

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