Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...United Nations (see following story). But the larger concern was the potential impact of Washington-Peking collaboration on the war in Indochina. Washington tried to disclaim any direct connection between Nixon's journey and ending the war. Yet roughly a year ago, Rogers declared in a Tokyo television interview that "Communist China is the key to the future of Indochina. If they would talk sensibly about a settlement, we think we could work out a peaceful settlement very quickly." Such thoughts obviously still remain tantalizing, and some kind of deal on the war was a possible goal...
Fallout in Japan. Another area of intense Peking-summit fallout was Japan. Prime Minister Eisaku Sato, who has long staked his political reputation on his close ties with the U.S., lost face in not being consulted by Washington about the venture. '"We too [can] keep secrets," he complained. Tokyo critics called for Sato's resignation and, defensively, he offered to go to Peking, too, in order to give Japan a say in any arrangement affecting the region. Nationalist sentiment for greater independence from the U.S. was fueled. Eying the new prominence of China, Japanese business firms withdrew from...
While the U.S. overture could push Japan and China closer together, it might also have the adverse effect of reducing Tokyo's reliance on the U.S. nuclear umbrella and strengthening Japan's urges to have its own nuclear missiles-a development that would horrify Peking...
...adequately comfortable rooms, most with bath, for the equivalent of $5 a day. while Shanghai's Hoping (Peace) Hotel charges roughly the same. Its rooms and general ambience are much pleasanter. to some Westerners at least, perhaps because the Hoping is a relic of imperialist days. A.P. Tokyo Correspondent John Roderick, who knew the Hoping as the Palace in 1948, found during his visit last April that it was "aging beautifully...
...Boeing came closest to offering what the Tokyo government wants. Final terms have yet to be worked out, but it is likely that Boeing will sell or lease to the Japanese basic design-and-production technology either for a short-range version of its famed jumbo jet, with the working name of 747-SR, or for a completely new superjet airbus that could carry up to 300 passengers but operate out of relatively short runways. Presumably, the Japanese would put up a production line with Boeing's help, and some of the plane parts would be built...