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...prepare for a party conference coming up in July, but the Japanese are unconvinced. They suspect that Ceausescu, who talked to a dissident Japanese politician in Bucharest early last month, simply decided that it would be better to wait and deal later with whoever succeeds lame duck Premier Eisaku Sato...
...Japanese also detect the hand of the Chinese in the affair. Just before the cancellation, a high Rumanian party official named Emil Bodnaras returned to Bucharest from a visit to Peking. Reportedly he brought word of a deep Chinese suspicion that Sato would try to score some points in Japanese domestic politics by getting Ceausescu to act as his go-between in Peking, which has turned aside Sato's efforts to improve Sino-Japanese relations. The result has been ill feeling in Tokyo, embarrassment in Bucharest, and no doubt satisfaction in Peking...
What with the rough domestic and international weather that has hit the regime of Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato, 71, it has been clear for months that he has been waiting only for the proper moment to retire. Now that one of his central ambitions-the reversion of Okinawa to Japanese control-is an accomplished fact (TIME, May 22), Sato has evidently decided that the moment has come. The word is out in Tokyo that he will announce the close of his eight-year premiership to a caucus of his Liberal Democratic parliamentary majority late this week...
...President's concert of powers are already nuclear, the Japanese detect an implication that eventually they are to go nuclear as well. That prospect frightens Asia. It has also put Tokyo at a disadvantage with Peking, which has been able to make life extremely uncomfortable for Premier Eisaku Sato's government by playing on Asian fears of Japanese remilitarization. As Peking is aware, no one is more worried about nuclearization than the Japanese themselves. Such a step to them spells continued hostility from China and a serious obstacle to the process of accommodation that Japan has successfully followed...
...situation." The French newspaper Le Monde said that the Nixon speech, like others made by the President on the war, was "unreal-it is not an ocean which separates the California coast from Indochina but a bottomless political and cultural trench." Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, offering a rare criticism of the U.S., called the blockade "not a wise move," although he sympathized with Nixon's aims...