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6F DETROIT FREE PRESSSUNDAY, MAY 23, 1993 YASUKUNI EtiOXI pinmniiii.i 1 1 Diplomat in Detroit 4 Yasukuni Enoki seems pleased with the view from his office in the Renaissance Center. Among other things, the diplomat will try to make it easier for the Big Three to export cars to Japan. relishes i I Age 47 EDUCATION: University of Tokyo law school, 1968 CAREER: Entered Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1968. Previous postings in France, Egypt, United Nations in New York, and India. Most recently in Australia, named Japanese consul in Detroit last month.

RESIDENCE: Living in the Westin Hotel while looking for a house. FAMILY: Wife Michiko. Son Shinichiro, 20, is with him in Detroit. Another son, Daisaku, 19, stayed behind in Australia to complete his college studies. CAR: He recently bought a Ford Taurus.

"I don't have any preference for Japanese, American or European cars." challenge In ill A s- CRAIG FUJII Detroit Free Press tizlj 1 rrr I 7 'Conventional and Advance Payment Program lease Carpet I I 1 iivf UaSi 1 payments based on the 1993 Grand Marquis M.S.R.P hot is ii wn Li Kit LIU Li UUU I'. Mft $23,607 and on '93 Villager GS M.S.R $20,104 excluding title, taxes, license fe Lease payment based on an average capi talized cost of 90.86 of M.S.R.P. for Grand Marquis and 91.37 of M.S.R.P. grj CarpEt Casri ENOKI, from Page IF While going to college in the mid-1960s, a tumultuous period for Japanese as well as American students, Enoki says he searched desperately for a profession that would infuse his life with meaning. "I wanted to feel I'm actually living alive.

I wanted to lead a very challenging life that would give me satisfaction, so that I can feel" he lowers his voice into a whisper "I am alive!" Enoki doesn't describe himself as a former campus radical, but rather as a radical bureaucrat. To be sure, he is as much a product of elite Japan as any other high-ranking public servant. He was an undergraduate at the University of Tokyo, Japan's Harvard. Then he entered the even more rari-fied University of Tokyo law school, which begets almost all of the nation's top bureaucrats and politicians. Enoki is so wrapped up in politics and history that he even tells important personal stories against historical backdrops.

"For example, I wed my wife in Cairo more than 25 years ago more than 20 years ago," he corrects himself with a laugh. "My wife is very sensitive about that. And we had our first son just before the 1973 war between Arabs and Israelis." Seven years later, he was posted to the United States for the first time, as a delegate at the United Nations in New York. Enoki says he is heartened that for Villager for 24-month closed-en Red Carpet leases purchased in th One of the lest teans to lease 21531 Min Great Lakes Region for the period 992-293. Some payments higher, some lower.

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Any information from the field area of manufacturing should be different from a political city. And I wish to be a good spokesman spokesmon for Japan," says the politically savvy consul general. The consulate, which serves Michigan and Ohio, has a staff of three from Japan. Next spring, Enoki says, an official from Japan's Ministry of Transportation will join the office in Detroit. The new official's role will be to make it easier for the Big Three to export cars to Japan.

American companies, have long complained that car exports to Japan have been hampered by overly stringent safety and testing standards. In his five weeks in Detroit, Enoki has gradually become known among the state's business community. He is scheduled to meet Gov. John Engler next month. For now, the philosophical Enoki is concerned with mundane matters: choosing a permanent site for the Japanese consulate, somewhere in downtown Detroit.

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