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Outraged, Japan's Korean and Chinese neighbors demanded a total revision of the contentious texts. Reflecting his country's traditional antagonism to Japan, a South Korean Cabinet minister asked, "Perhaps the Japanese are not capable of thinking like human beings?" At home, Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki was attacked by political opponents as well as within his own Cabinet for allowing the changes to be made...
Finally last week the government proposed a solution that it hoped would end the textbook battle without damaging Suzuki's chances of re-election to the presidency of his Liberal Democratic Party in November. A spokesman promised that future texts would reflect the "basic understanding between Japan and the respective governments," and stated that Japan was "deeply aware" that it had "inflicted great suffering and injury on the peoples of Korea, China and the other countries of Asia...
Such a public confession of national guilt seemed to be exactly what angry Koreans and Chinese wanted most to hear, but, in fact, the Suzuki compromise offered more conciliatory words than deeds. An official spokesman conceded that it was already too late to prevent publication of the offending schoolbooks. Instead, the government promised to distribute a newsletter to schools that would begin using the 1.3 million textbooks next spring, setting out new guidelines for interpretation of the past. Japan's angry neighbors will have to wait until 1985 for more substantive revisions in the Japanese revisionism...
India is also encouraging foreign companies to make direct investments in the country. Japan's Suzuki Motor Co. is expected to pay $70 million for a 25% share in Maruti Udyog, a nationalized automobile company. Chevron International Oil Co. has agreed to invest at least $27 million in three exploration wells on India's continental shelf, an area that was formerly off limits to foreign companies. India currently meets about 55% of its oil needs from domestic production, and it hopes to boost that figure...
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, waiting for his turn at the microphone, became notably restless. He had to sit through yet another lesson, from Japan's impenetrable Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki...