Yankee plotters

“MR FOREIGN PRESSURE”: that is what one Japanese television network called John Taylor, America's top international-finance man at the Treasury Department, when he visited Tokyo last month. These days, American support for Japan's latest attempt to clean up its banks raises more than a few hackles. What most infuriates locals is foreign support for the new financial-affairs minister, Heizo Takenaka, whose proposals, many fear, will lead to bankruptcies and job losses.