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...second place. Kahn envisions the 21st century as "the Japanese century," the time when the hardworking, disciplined people of Japan will even surpass the prolific but bedeviled U.S. Richard Nixon stated the challenge last week as he sent to the Senate the treaty draft that restores Japanese sovereignty over Okinawa. Said the President: "The potential for cooperation between our two economies, the world's most productive and the world's most dynamic, is clearly immense." But he warned: "The problems involved in strengthening the fabric of peace in Asia and the Pacific will undoubtedly be challenging. If Japan...
...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. Now he may speed up the search for a successor and retire this fall. The most likely contenders: Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, 66, who now finds himself handicapped by an overly close identification with Sato's policies, and Minister of International Trade and Industry Kakuei...
...cannot ignore the fact that Taiwan has a thriving free economy and one of the largest non-Communist armed forces in Asia. Nevertheless, America's practical military and political stake in the island is strictly limited. Recently the Defense Department suggested that nuclear weapons to be banned from Okinawa when it reverts to Japanese control might be transferred to Taiwan; other Washington officials dismissed this idea as politically impractical and militarily unnecessary. If required, these weapons could more readily be shifted to Guam...
...though, will retain 88 military installations on the 454-sq.-mi. island, including the huge Kadena Air Base, which is presently a major reconnaissance, support and transport base for the Indochina war. A high American military official on Okinawa said last week that although the U.S. will control only one-seventh of the land it formerly controlled under the treaty terms, "we will have 95% of what we had before. We are keeping those bases that are essential." Japan will take over 46 small U.S. installations, for which it will pay $320 million in compensation over the next five years...
Crucial Issue. The touchiest matter is the question of nuclear weapons, always a crucial issue in Japanese politics because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The oblique language of the treaty in this regard-that the "U.S. would not exercise the right to store nuclear weapons on Okinawa" unless Japan agrees -stems from the fact that the U.S. has never officially acknowledged that it has nuclear weapons on Okinawa. There are, in fact, quite a few of them. Last week the Defense and State departments jointly proposed to the White House that hundreds of nuclear bombs, ground-to-ground rockets, atomic land...