Under U.S. pressure, Nakasone tries to change attitudes on defense
As the 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...
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