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Hiseido is especially strong in its public criticism of the Sato government for its weak stand on nuclear weapons. When Prime Minister Sato visited Hiroshima last August 6, he was the first Japanese Prime Minister to visit that city since the dropping of the bomb. Hiseido organized a demonstration to protest the visit...
...their part, the Japanese were eager for a little courting from the Soviets, if only to give both Washington and Peking something to think about. Even so, that did not mean that Gromyko would find the courting easy. About all he managed to wangle out of Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato and Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda was an agreement to begin negotiations some time this year on the peace treaty that has been languishing on the agenda ever since the two countries formally ended their state...
...teamed up with Nancy Sato and Jean Sinnott to place first in the 400-yard freestyle relay and take a second in the 200-yard medley relay...
...place in the world. While advancing economically at a stunning rate, Japan has shied away from assuming increased military responsibility. Though not wanting Japan to become a nuclear power, the U.S. would like it to spend much more on conventional armaments and exert more political influence in Asia. But Sato and Fukuda emphasized that they prefer to stay comfortably under the U.S. security umbrella for the time being...
...ambiguous stance. As much as the Japanese need the U.S., they resent their dependence. At a final press conference, Sato was asked if he would invite Nixon to visit Japan. Out of the question, said the Premier. He recalled that when his brother, former Premier Nobusuke Kishi, asked President Eisenhower to come to Japan, such a storm of protest broke out that the visit had to be canceled. "This incident is stuck in my memory," said Sato. Today the same anti-American elements could still cause trouble, "and that would be a case where two brothers would be committing...