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Next morning Emperor Hirohito came to the palace to welcome Ford officially. Both wore formal dress, though the President's striped trousers were cut so short that they showed an unseemly inch of black silk stocking. Almost 30 years ago, Ford was an officer aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier in the mid-Pacific when Hirohito ordered Japan's surrender. A military band played the two countries' national anthems, then, in a touch of unintentional irony, serenaded Ford with the University of Michigan fight song, The Victors. Hirohito took Ford to the moated Imperial Palace to meet Empress...
Tuesday morning Ford was to have an audience with Emperor Hirohito, who planned to honor him that evening with a formal banquet at the Imperial Palace. On both Tuesday and Wednesday, Ford and Tanaka expected to spend several hours together at the Akasaka Palace, discussing mutual defense arrangements, trade, relations with Communist China, inflation and the energy crisis. In addition, Tanaka sought a promise that the U.S. would not restrict food sales to Japan in the future, while Ford hoped to receive assurances that the Japanese Diet would ratify the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. After reciprocating with a dinner for Hirohito...
...well-wishers have ranged from Emperor Hirohito of Japan and West German President Walter Scheel, to schoolchildren who laboriously copied out their letters of friendship. A number of women who have also undergone mastectomies-including Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the 90-year-old daughter of Teddy Roosevelt-took the time to write. Mrs. Ford's illness also produced a cornucopia of gifts, which have generally been passed along to hospitals, plus contributions in her name, including a $5,000 check to the American Cancer Society...
...over the next two decades in exchange for French products. In Japan, the government extended a royal welcome to two barnstorming Arab oil ministers, Saudi Arabia's Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani and Algeria's Belaid Abdessalam. They were granted an unusual 30-minute audience with Emperor Hirohito. Like a king granting gifts to supplicants, Yamani declared that "Japan is in the No. 1 position both to help us and to be the recipient of Saudi Arabian oil on a long term basis." Minister of International Trade and Industry Yasuhiro Nakasone, on a recent Middle East swing, closed deals...
...Tanaka's visit was rated a considerable success, a healthy turning point, perhaps, in Japanese-American relations. To underline their new equality, both leaders agreed on a further exchange of visits, with Nixon going to Japan and Emperor Hirohito traveling to the U.S. Though Tanaka's opposition in Tokyo quickly denounced the trips, both journeys are expected to take place before the end of 1974. At the same time, the U.S. promised to help Japan gain a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council-further, if belated, recognition that Japan is now one of the world...