Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John K. Fairbank '29, Higginson Professor of History, left Mascow for Tokyo Wednesday after two weeks of discussions with some of Russia's experts on China...
...remaining obstacles to a peace treaty between Japan and the Soviet Union formally ending World War II is the fate of four small islands north of Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost province, that have been occupied by the Russians since 1945. Shortly after Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko visited Tokyo last January, Soviet officials hinted that they might agree to a "lease" arrangement that would implicitly recognize the Japanese claim over the islands-recognition that Tokyo has made a precondition to any treaty. But before starting talks on the treaty as the Russians wished, Japan's new Premier Kakuei...
...Nippon airbus business. Beyond the prospect of additional sales of the 300-passenger planes to All Nippon, a big domestic carrier, the deal gives Lockheed its first firm commercial foothold in the Asian market. Says Lockheed President Carl Kotchian, who has been camping in Tokyo for four months: "We won this contract against great initial odds...
...choice will be gratefully received by the U.S. and British governments. At the Hawaii summit in August, President Nixon prodded Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka to have Japan buy more American goods, including aircraft, to help reduce the U.S. trade deficit. Half a dozen of Japan's newspapers, including Tokyo's large Yomiuri Shimbun, carried reports that Nixon feels a special responsibility to keep Lockheed viable, and that he put in a good word with Tanaka specifically for TriStar. In September Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, also worried about trade deficits, urged Japanese officials in face...
Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka ordered a 20% slash in tariffs on most imports of industrial and mining products. The average Japanese tariff will come down to 9.5% on consumer goods. In addition, the Tokyo government will let in more goods (computers, leather products, many foods) that are restricted by import quotas, and will make low interest loans to importers first rather than to exporters, as had previously been its policy. The government also has invoked an ordinance compelling companies to form cartels to restrict exports of products deemed to be winning foreign customers too rapidly...