Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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BACK in 1963, before going on to our Tokyo and Moscow bureaus, Jerrold Schecter enrolled in seminars on Sino-Soviet Relations and Defense Policy at Har vard, where he was spending a year as a Nieman fellow. His teacher: a brilliant 40-year-old professor of government from Germany named Henry Kissinger...
JAPAN Nukes for Nippon? Unlike recent junkets by other Administration officials, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's ten-day swing through Tokyo and Seoul seemed carefully calculated to be thoroughly unspectacular. Laird's message was the same for both allies: they could count on continued protection from the Seventh Fleet and the U.S. nuclear umbrella, but they would have to furnish "credible deterrence" on the ground themselves. Who could get upset over what amounted to yet another sales pitch for the Nixon Doctrine...
...smoke rose from a background briefing that Pentagon Spokesman Jerry Friedheim conducted in Tokyo. In response to a question put to him by an American reporter after the briefing, Friedheim speculated that one place Japan might want to increase its microscopic defense budget (which currently accounts for less than 1 % of its gross national product of close to $200 billion) "could be in the area of ships." Friedheim also spoke of "a greater nuclear threat by the Chinese toward Asia." The spokesman's comments were innocent enough, but when they hit print, they were surrounded with speculation that Tokyo...
...eruption of Mount Fuji. Laird's purpose was primarily to urge Japan to upgrade its armed forces-preferably with arms purchased in the U.S.-and to take a larger economic-aid role in Asia. But almost from the start of the Secretary's stay in Tokyo, U.S. officials were kept busy batting down dark rumors that the U.S. was dragooning Japan into 1) taking over the role of the Seventh Fleet and 2) becoming the biggest nuclear arsenal west of Los Alamos. Few Japanese were convinced by the denials. As Japan's biggest daily, Asahi Shimbun...
...What does inhibit Japan, however, is the deep-seated "nuclear allergy" of its 103 million people. Some authorities in Tokyo want them to begin thinking about the unthinkable. Thus when Laird came to town, Japanese Defense Agency officials recruited sympathetic Western reporters to raise the nuclear issue, knowing that almost any reply would produce considerable fallout. It was, Japanese officials predict, only the first effort in a continuing campaign to "season the minds" of the Japanese public...