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...last January, Soviet officials hinted that they might agree to a "lease" arrangement that would implicitly recognize the Japanese claim over the islands-recognition that Tokyo has made a precondition to any treaty. But before starting talks on the treaty as the Russians wished, Japan's new Premier Kakuei Tanaka flew off to Peking. Two weeks ago, Tanaka finally dispatched Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira to Moscow. His reception, like the weather, was rather chilly...
Japanese officials are sure that All Nippon's choice will be gratefully received by the U.S. and British governments. At the Hawaii summit in August, President Nixon prodded Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka to have Japan buy more American goods, including aircraft, to help reduce the U.S. trade deficit. Half a dozen of Japan's newspapers, including Tokyo's large Yomiuri Shimbun, carried reports that Nixon feels a special responsibility to keep Lockheed viable, and that he put in a good word with Tanaka specifically for TriStar. In September Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, also worried...
Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka ordered a 20% slash in tariffs on most imports of industrial and mining products. The average Japanese tariff will come down to 9.5% on consumer goods. In addition, the Tokyo government will let in more goods (computers, leather products, many foods) that are restricted by import quotas, and will make low interest loans to importers first rather than to exporters, as had previously been its policy. The government also has invoked an ordinance compelling companies to form cartels to restrict exports of products deemed to be winning foreign customers too rapidly...
...course a phony war, even though some Japanese diplomats re ceived threatening telephone calls, Taipei students burned a portrait of Japanese Premier Kakuei Tanaka, and in one city, protesting doctors symbolical ly burned Japanese pharmaceuticals...
...early fall breeze swept over Peking airport, lifting the first Rising Sun flag to fly there since 1945. As Japan's Premier Kakuei Tanaka stepped out of his DC-8, a Chinese band struck up the solemn Japanese anthem Kimigayo (The Reign of Our Emperor), then switched to the Communist Chinese anthem March of the Volunteers, the staccato marching song that Mao Tse-tung's Red Army sang during its wars with Emperor Hirohito's plundering troops in the 1930s and '40s. It was a moving beginning to a historic meeting that would end a century...