ある墓碑銘

アジア版タイム誌７月１６日号の Milestones が宮澤喜一元首相を取り上げていた。

The image many Americans have of dovish former Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa is unfortunate: it's of him cradling a flu-stricken George H. W. Bush in 1992 after the president vomited on him during a dinner.

と始まり、

Yet the former Foreign Minister advised policymakers in boosting Japan's economy after World War II; helped plan a bailout of Japan's failed banking system in the '90s; and as the country's leader for two years, sought to restore ties with wartime enemies in Asia.

とその功績を挙げ、以下のように結んでいる。

In 1992 he was the first Japanese PM to acknowledge the role of Japanese soldiers in forcing Asian women to serve as sex slaves during the war. He was 87.