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WHEN the Japanese pay somebody a visit, they often take a gift. If the person happens to be wealthier, they expect to return home with a nicer gift than the one they brought. That is more or less what happened last week when Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato met with President Nixon in San Clemente-the last in a series of presidential conferences with heads of state before Nixon goes to the bigger summits in Peking and Moscow. After two days of talks, Sato could go home with the satisfaction of seeming to have got a little more than he gave...
...More Shocks. When the two-day round of talks ended, U.S.-Japanese relations had recovered at least some of their old cordiality. Standing with Sato under a towering pine in the garden of Casa Pacifica, the President said that they had just finished the "most comprehensive discussion which has ever taken place between the Prime Minister of Japan and the President of the U.S." Sato concurred. The talks, he declared, "contributed to strengthening the unshakable relationship of mutual trust and inter dependence between the people of the U.S. and Japan." Less enthusiastic, a Sato subordinate remarked: "I guess we will...
...main topics of conversation were China and Taiwan. Completely surprised by the President's about-face on Peking, Sato wanted to make sure that he was not caught off guard again. Nixon assured him that no more shokkus would be coming. When he goes to Peking, he will make no agreement that affects Japan. He did not reveal details of his agenda, but he told Sato that he expects to make only modest progress in China: some steps to expand trade, tourism and diplomatic contacts. Sato was especially fretful about Taiwan. Japan had been pressured by the U.S. into...
Better communications between the U.S. and Japan were discussed by Secretary of State William Rogers and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, who is considered the leading candidate to succeed Sato. Rogers rather lamely explained that the U.S. did not forewarn Japan of the presidential visit to Peking because it was afraid there would be a leak that would jeopardize the trip. When Rogers finally did call Sato to inform him, 20 minutes were lost in a search for a translator. To make certain of quick contact from now on, the U.S. agreed to install a hot line between Washington...
...Sato won another concession that should help him at home. The U.S. had wanted to return Okinawa no sooner than July 1. Under Japanese pressure, Nixon agreed to move up the date to May 15. Sato badly needs some accomplishment to let him end his career in honor. Nixon also made explicit an earlier U.S. guarantee to remove all U.S. nuclear weapons from Okinawa. He would not agree to reduce the 88 U.S. military facilities on Okinawa allowed under the treaty, but he promised to review their status periodically...