Ryutaro Hashimoto had been Mickey Kantor’s counterpart before becoming the head of the Japanese government.
桥本龙太郎在出任首相之前曾担任和米基·坎特一样的职务。
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To make things worse, then-Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto was trying to reduce the government fiscal deficit - at the most inopportune time.
雪上加霜的是，首相桥本龙太郎正力图削减财政赤字，而他选择了一个最不恰当的时间。
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Ryutaro Kono, chief economist of BNP Paribas in Japan, says that given the fall in Japan's potential growth rate and the drop in inflation expectations, yields should normally have plunged.