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...Japanese public responded. Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama set the example by returning his treasured marimo. Transportation Minister Takeo Miki visited Lake Akan in person and gave two marimos their freedom. A hotel owner in Tokyo apprehended a marimo snatcher with 150 captives. Out of hidden aquariums came hundreds more...
...included $1,000 for each of the 91,180 Filipinos who died at the hands of the Japanese. Since then, some of the legacy of hatred has diminished, and so have Philippine demands. Four months ago, Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay got down to cases by asking Japanese Premier Ichiro Hatoyama to demonstrate "that Japan is really sincere in making amends by doing it in a tangible way to the best of its ability." The amount of money involved, Magsaysay indicated, could then be adjusted...
...Hatoyama responded by inviting Magsaysay's envoy to a Tokyo bargaining table. But it soon became clear that the Japanese, fearful of their precarious foreign trade position, meant to drive a hard bargain: a large award to the Philippines might set off a chain reaction of higher demands from other victims of Japanese expansion, e.g., Thailand, Indonesia...
...price, to wit: return of Southern Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands; entry into the U.N.; return of 10,000 Japanese P.W.s and "war criminals"; trade and fishing concessions in Siberian waters. Some or all of these inducements, plus the "normalized relations" promised to the Japanese electorate by Premier Ichiro Hatoyama last February, might bring the neutralist pledge...
...Hatoyama's precarious right wing coalition of Liberals and Democrats is in hot water at home, which weakens his ability to deal with the Russians, but may tempt him to dally with them in a reckless last-minute bid for popularity. But Hatoyama must also ask himself whether Japan can afford to quit the U.S. shelter. The U.S. spends about $800 million a year in Japan, and provides its only real defense...