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...express regret and admit that he was "at a loss how to apologize to the nation for the fact that two of the three culprits have been students at our university." Education Minister Saburo Takami, in turn, apologized for shortcomings in the educational system, while Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda spoke of the dishonor to the nation...
...recent controversies over domestic priorities and Japan's U.S.-oriented foreign policy have notably decreased Sato's ability to determine his successor. Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, whom Sato had groomed as the heir apparent, cut short a trip to Seoul scheduled for this week in order to be on hand for Sato's announcement. It will signal what promises to be a struggle for the succession among Fukuda and three rivals: Trade Minister Kakuei Tanaka, a construction millionaire who is the main threat to Fukuda's hopes, and two former Foreign Ministers, Masayoshi Ohira and Takeo...
...refuel in mid-air on a bombing run to Viet Nam because of weather conditions in the western Pacific. They were diverted to Okinawa's Kadena A.F.B., where the big bombers were based until last year. Aware of Japanese sensitivity, the U.S. embassy in Tokyo alerted Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda about the new flight plan of the B-52s; thus Fukuda was able to break the news of an "unavoidable emergency" that forced the planes to land on Okinawa for a four-hour refueling stop. Nevertheless, a government spokesman agreed with Socialist critics in the Diet last week that...
...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...
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...