Word: akasaka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obvious that this question would dominate the Tokyo summit long before the government chiefs gathered around a 27-ft.-long mahogany table in the gilt-and-rococo Akasaka Palace for their first formal session. The summit, fifth in an annual series devoted to economics, had been scheduled before the latest oil crisis broke, and Jimmy Carter took the occasion to combine it with a state visit to Japan. For three days, while diplomats maneuvered in the back rooms, the President patiently went through the ceremonial rituals of such a visit?reviewing troops under a broiling Tokyo sun; chatting amiably with...
Against that background, the heads of government of the non-Communist world's seven strongest industrial powers ?Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, West Germany and the U.S.?will convene Thursday in Tokyo's ornate Akasaka Palace to consider what they might do. The meeting, fifth in a series of annual summits devoted to economics, was scheduled before the latest oil crisis broke, but it will be so dominated by petroleum worries that it is being called the energy summit. For Jimmy Carter, the meeting will be especially critical; American voters are far more irate about the gasoline shortage...
...press conference last week, Fukuda stated: "I intend to work up a full dialogue with the opposition parties." University of Tokyo Political Scientist Shinkichi Eto only half jokingly muses that if "I were Fukuda, I'd be taking the opposition leaders to some nice quiet geisha house in Akasaka...
...theme of partnership set the tone for the talks between Ford and Tanaka in the ornate gilt, cream and pink marble Rising Sun Room of the Akasaka Palace. Their discussions touched on detente, China, the Middle East and Japanese sensitivities about nuclear weapons but focused principally on energy and food. In the final communique, the two leaders promised that their countries would cooperate on oil policy -an agreement that appeared to override Japan's previous reluctance to act in any way that might offend the Arab oil producers. But the statement did not commit Japan to joining the consumers...
...President's crusted pipes were strewn about his quarters in the Akasaka Palace. There were the mixings for a good martini to get his blood circulating before the formal dinners and speeches. When Ford gathered his staff at the start of his Japanese stay, they threshed over the weekend football scores before they got down to energy, trade and nuclear weapons...