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...less volatile involvement with foreign affairs, Johnson met with an old friend, Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, and the two announced that tariffs covering auto shipments between the two nations would be dropped. The President also met, for the first time, Japan's new Prime Minister, Eisaku Sato. They got on congenially enough, but both proceeded cautiously and without changing their attitudes on thorny subjects...
Louder Voice. Sato is under political pressure at home to give Japan a louder and more independent voice abroad, and thus, even more than his predecessors, he will be angling to bring back from Washington an omiyage-the gift that, according to Japanese custom, a host presents an honored guest. During two scheduled huddles with President Johnson, the Japanese leader will probably renew his country's request for more administrative say-so on Okinawa, the onetime Japanese possession that the U.S. military still occupies. Sato may also protest U.S. restrictions on Japanese textiles and renew Japan's long...
Mainly, however, Sato will be anxious to probe the whole range of U.S. policy in Asia, especially policy toward Communist China. He will explain Japan's viewpoint on trade with Peking: that commerce should be separated from politics. Fact is, Washington is not overly concerned about Japanese commerce with the Reds; after all, it amounts to less than 2% of Japanese foreign trade, and Peking's permanent shortage of foreign exchange is a built-in brake...
Double Frown. But Sato will be disappointed if, as seems possible, he is hoping to swing the U.S. toward the increasingly popular view in Japan that Red China should be brought into the U.N.-and perhaps even receive diplomatic recognition. Washington remains opposed to both-and for its part will probably reiterate the U.S. desire to see Japan take a stronger anti-Communist leadership role, as Asia's only fully industrialized nation. And that role would not include giving a helping hand to the men in Peking...
...fame. In the U.N.'s .19 years of existence, no other nation had pulled out. There were those who thought it good riddance. But others pleaded earnestly with the stubborn leader to think twice. Japan's Premier Eisaku Sato, for instance, is said to have sent Sukarno a personal letter recalling the tragic path Japan followed, which led to Pearl Harbor, after it had been the first to abandon the League of Nations...