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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...
...only decisive development came at week's end from Tokyo. After two weeks of agonizing over the Nixon pressure and several times denying flatly that the yen would be revalued, the government of Prime Minister Eisaku Sato finally announced that it would allow the Japanese yen to float against the dollar. This was probably an unavoidable decision for Sato, but it was especially painful and will produce wide-ranging economic woes for Japan. By in effect increasing the price of the yen, Sato dulled the cutting edge of Japan's export drive, not only in the U.S.-which...
...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...