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Short Fuse in Japan
Axelbank, Albert | February 3, 1969 issue

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Immediately' upon his election, U.S. President Richard M. Nixon forfeited one of his favorite pleasures: a trip to Japan. Under present tensions, no U.S. President may visit that country. Even Nixon's Secretary of State, when he visits Tokyo, will be as heavily guarded as a bullion shipment. Japan's own Prime Minister must perforce choose the back roads to the airport when he travels abroad. What Nixon is being told, by such experts on Japan as Edwin Reischauer and John Ernmerson, both former diplomats in Tokyo, is that chaos in Japan, produced by massive anti-pact, anti-bases and anti-U.S. occupation of Okinawa demonstrations; would trigger swift and debilitating shock waves for the U.S.

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UNITED States -- Politics & government; PRESIDENTS -- United States; NIXON, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; JAPAN -- Politics & government; OKINAWA Island (Japan); JAPAN; UNITED States
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