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...marchers were protesting the Japan-South Korea Normalization Treaty, ratified by banzai vote in the Diet a week earlier when Premier Eisaku Sato's Liberal Democratic floor managers bulldozed the opposition Socialists with a post-midnight roll call. Japan's leftists claim that the treaty will somehow lead to Japanese involvement in the Viet...
...Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, last week's upper-house elections could hardly have been more badly timed. Although production lines are humming faster than ever, Japan is going through a painful economic "readjustment" which in the past 16 months has wiped out thousands of small businesses, sent the stock market plunging 15% and consumer prices soaring. The government has been widely attacked for its open support of the U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam as well as for signing the long-overdue peace treaty with South Korea (TIME, July 2). Worst of all, Sato's Liberal Democratic Party...
Handel & Champagne. That step-after 14 years of quarrelsome negotiations-took place in Tokyo, where the Foreign Ministers of Japan and South Korea marched into the chrysanthemum-decked ceremonial hall of Prime Minister Eisaku Sato's official residence. There, the beaming officials signed a "normalization" treaty and 26 related documents that make the two nations political and diplomatic equals for the first time in modern history. Then, to the sonorous strains of Handel's Toll for the Brave, Sato and the Foreign Ministers toasted one another in French champagne...
...JAPAN. What expansion-minded businessmen regard as a recession would be a boom anywhere else: the economy is still growing at about 7% a year. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato calls the Japanese slowdown "an adjustive stage after years of phenomenal growth," predicts an upsurge soon. Main problem: too many companies are deep in debt, vulnerable to slight dips in sales...
...discourage Japanese trade with Red China now privately concede its necessity. Officials therefore predict an increase in exports to Asia in general, and to Red China in particular. "It is impossible for us to ignore our relationship with 700 million Chinese who live on the mainland," says Premier Eisaku Sato. "To be always thinking of that vast country in political rather than economic terms in dangerous...