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...this is regarded as welcome, if overdue, by the pro-Western governments in East Asia, as well as most of the neutral ones. Says Hisahiko Okazaki, a top strategist of Japan's Defense Agency: "As we see it, the Americans are coming back. There seems to have been a psychological change in American public opinion, largely in the wake of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
Australia, Paraguay, Colombia and Costa Rica were firmly against Peking membership. Japan's Katsuo Okazaki ranged himself with the U.S., but hopefully suggested that recognition of two Chinas might be a way out. Canada's Alfred Brooks voiced "grave doubts" that Peking would qualify as "peace loving" and in his conclusion seemed to edge toward a "study committee" for the entire issue of Chinese representation...
...Tokyo, Foreign Minister Katsuo Okazaki and U.S. Ambassador Robert Murphy signed an agreement (already approved by Congress) transferring 50 U.S. landing craft and 18 frigates to Japan's Coastal Safety Force (embryo navy) on a five-year-loan basis. The news created hardly a ripple in either country, though in 1942 any U.S. serviceman in the Pacific would have been laughed down had he predicted such a turn of events in one decade...
...packed into their tight little islands. But last week, when an occupation official asked, in curiosity, whether a Japanese government might encourage birth control in future, he got a stout no. The reason showed how little some Japanese had changed. Explained former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Katsuo Okazaki (while Foreign Minister Hitoshi Ashida nodded in solemn agreement): "Because with birth control, in 20 years we would not have enough young...