Word: eisaku
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Revelation. The U.S.'s moves had the immediate political effect of creating a schism in Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's long-solid Liberal-Democratic Party. Nixon's overtures to China split the party into warring pro-and anti-Peking factions; his economic measures lent credence to charges by opposition party leaders that the Sato government had tied itself too closely to the U.S. Sato, who had built his remarkable four-term career on that relationship, had expected to step down triumphantly next spring at 70, after the return of Okinawa from U.S. to Japanese rule...
...would "wake up one glorious morning to find that the U.S. had recognized Communist China, having given Japan no advance notification." Three weeks ago, when Richard Nixon told a startled world that he intended to visit Peking, the unexpected announcement proved a bad dream indeed for Japan's Eisaku Sato. Coming as it did without any prior consultation and so little advance notification as to be humiliating, it left the 70-year-old Premier hurt, resentful and in a state of acute domestic embarrassment...
Fallout in Japan. Another area of intense Peking-summit fallout was Japan. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, who has long staked his political reputation on his close ties with the U.S., lost face in not being consulted by Washington about the venture. '"We too [can] keep secrets," he complained. Tokyo critics called for Sato's resignation and, defensively, he offered to go to Peking, too, in order to give Japan a say in any arrangement affecting the region. Nationalist sentiment for greater independence from the U.S. was fueled. Eying the new prominence of China, Japanese business firms withdrew from...
...Washington, before 100 guests, Secretary of State William Rogers signed the document in the Thomas Jefferson Room of the new State Department building. President Nixon, who had personally worked out the preliminary agreement for the treaty with Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato in 1969, was not present. The official explanation was that while Sato is merely head of government, Nixon is head of government and state as well. Protocol thus dictated that he not attend unless Emperor Hirohito put in an appearance in Tokyo. After Foreign Minister Kiichi Aichi signed for Japan, Sato said that he was "happy...
...press conference that of course he would not presume to advise a foreign government what its money should be worth-even though, in his personal view, "the yen is an undervalued currency." The Japanese were incensed, but went along with the pretense. At a televised news conference, Prime Minister Eisaku Sato looked uncharacteristically menacing as he complained that "there could not have been a more outrageous case of interference in domestic matters." Later, however, Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda added that for that very reason, he could not believe so experienced a diplomat as Trezise would commit such a faux...