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Escalating public concern and the opposition parties' goading this winter finally forced Prime Minister Sato to convene an extraordinary session of the Diet to legislate a dozen anti-pollution laws. Industry moved forcefully into action, and the bills finally passed in December had been watered down substantially from the original versions...
...imports in any amount constitute an extremely emotional issue in mill towns around the country, and Nixon seems determined to deliver on campaign promises to textile executives-mostly from the South-who contributed some $6 million to his 1968 race. He is also irritated with Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, who, in Nixon's view, has reneged on a 1969 promise to curb textile exports voluntarily. (Sato says he was misunderstood because of an error in translation.) The President also has been eager to teach House Ways and Means Chairman Wilbur Mills not to meddle in foreign policy...
...Japanese surrender deals a further blow to the fading political fortunes of Sato and his pro-American policies. His party can probably stay in power, but much rancor against the U.S. will remain. About the best that can be said of the settlement is that it frees both U.S. and Japanese officials to concentrate on weightier matters-revaluation of the Japanese yen, for example, and removal of the U.S. 10% import surcharge on all foreign goods. Americans and Japanese can only hope that on those issues both sides will have more of a feel for the other's sensibilities...
...China problem is a particularly delicate one for the Japanese. Though they recognize Chiang Kai-shek's government as the legitimate China, the Japanese trade with both Taipei and Peking. Premier Sato explains: "During this transitional period, it is possible to recognize the existence of two regimes under the principle of one China." At present, Japan's trade with the two is almost in balance: $822 million with Peking last year, $950 million with Taipei (whose population is only 14 million, or one-fiftieth that of the mainland...
...somewhat shamefaced that while Paris has had a complete sewage system for 200 years, only 9.2% of Japanese homes boast flush toilets. That total includes even Tokyo, whose 11.4 million residents account for one-tenth of the country's population. "We have lacked investment in social-overhead capital," says Sato, "and this is a good moment to improve that...