Lightning Rod.(Japan's foreign minister Makiko Tanaka)

Newsweek International | November 19, 2001| | Copyright

Before she took the helm as Japan's top diplomat last April, Makiko Tanaka told NEWSWEEK that she hoped to be her government's "brains" on foreign policy. Half a year and several less-measured words later, Japan's first female foreign minister has become something quite different to maverick Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi--his Achilles heel.

In recent weeks Tanaka's long-simmering dispute with career Foreign Ministry bureaucrats has flamed into open warfare, undermining not only her prospects at the ministry but her boss's ambitious reform agenda. She has failed ...

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