Word: williamsburg
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...diplomatic initiatives. I have visited the U.S., Korea and other Asian countries. On these occasions, I enunciated Japan's policies more clearly than had been done in the past. At the Williamsburg economic summit, I stated Japan's strong resolve to contribute actively to the cause of the West. These efforts, I believe, have been instrumental in dispelling doubts about Japan that existed abroad. Compared with previous Japanese policy, it seems to me that we have entered a new age, especially with respect to the political role Japan should play in the world...
...leaders of the world's seven major industrial powers labored over their joint communique at Williamsburg last May, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone suggested inserting a sentence that sounded like diplomatese at its blandest. "The security of our countries," it said, "is indivisible and must be approached on a global basis." But the six other leaders immediately recognized the symbolic importance of the Japanese recommendation, which they readily approved. For the first time since 1945, when officers of the imperial Japanese army stood on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri and witnessed their country's surrender, Japan had publicly...
...Williamsburg summit, he met with local leaders and promised to convey their concern over rising protectionism to the Western leaders at the meeting...
...Hirohito finally visited the U.S. Over 15 days, the Emperor traveled from Williamsburg to Hawaii, attending a professional football game, meeting John Wayne and delightedly visiting the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass. For years after his trip to Disneyland he sported a Mickey Mouse wristwatch...
After the Reagan Administration's many pious pronouncements against protectionism and the agreement to foster free trade at the Williamsburg economic summit in May, the White House had a hard time defending the tariffs. They were, said U.S. Trade Representative William Brock, a "two by four" to swing against unfair subsidies and "a world system that is totally trade distortive, where governments intervene at will without any consideration of international rule." To many outsiders, though, the White House action looked like a cave-in to domestic pressures without consideration of the long-term consequences for international trade...