Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps there was something in the global ionosphere that year, something that still clings like smoke in an empty room. Without benefit of an unpopular war to trigger protest, Paris also was torn by civil disturbances; so were Mexico City and Tokyo. Even in Prague, the people rose up -only to be pushed into submission by armored tanks. Today all protest seems, somehow, to be an echo of that hopeful, dreadful time; but to the new listener there is no resonance, only the flat remnants of unassimilated rage...
...matter of fact, Tokyo is beginning to wonder these days if Washington has any desire to communicate at all with the country it has so frequently trumpeted as "our most important ally in Asia." The Nixon shokku of 1971, when former Premier Eisaku Sato was told of Washington's dramatic policy shift on China only three minutes before it became public, was bad enough. But now the American failure to consult-and include-Japan on post-Viet Nam policy has aroused deep doubts concerning the sincerity of public U.S. pronouncements that Japan should play an active role...
...Tokyo last week announced that Japan would soon send a delegation to Hanoi to discuss reconstruction and possibly the establishment of diplomatic contacts. On White House instructions, U.S. Ambassador Robert Ingersoll promptly showed up at the Japanese Foreign Ministry to caution Japanese officials not to sidle up to North Viet Nam before the cease-fire had proved effective-and before Henry Kissinger had made his appearance in Hanoi. Result: the Japanese mission will almost certainly be postponed...
Tanaka's first budget, on which debate will begin next week, is disappointing. At $46 billion, it is 25% higher than last year's-an inflationary increase suggesting that Tokyo's crafty moneymen anticipate international pressures for another revaluation of the yen. More damaging, there is only token acknowledgment of the reordered priorities that Tanaka spoke of so feelingly before the election. What of the tax reductions that he promised would be "the largest in history"? They work out to $50 a year-enough to buy four bottles of beer a week-for the average Japanese salary...
...another economic confrontation with Washington. The U.S.-Japanese trade imbalance that prompted the Nixon economic shokku of 1971 stood at a record $4.2 billion at year's end, and U.S. officials warn of further trouble unless "sure signs" of improvement appear in the next two or three months. Tokyo's efforts to ease the imbalance have been complicated by the facts that the revaluation of the yen 13 months ago has been slow to take effect, and that the recovering U.S. economy is simply absorbing more Japanese exports. Before long, some bold steps may be necessary-the kind...