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Panel postpones filing report on secret Japan-U.S. pacts to March
TOKYO, Jan. 31 Kyodo -
A Japanese government panel decided Sunday to postpone filing a report on its
investigations into four Japan-U.S. secret pacts on nuclear arms and other
issues until the end of March as it needs more time to review materials that
have been gathered by its members.
At its sixth meeting over the task, the panel also decided to ask Yoshihisa
Hara, a graduate school professor at Tokyo International University, to present
an audiotape on which he recorded an interview with former Vice Foreign
Minister Hisanari Yamada.
Yamada is believed to have said during the interview in October 1981 that Tokyo
gave tacit approval for stopovers in Japan or passing through Japanese
territorial waters by U.S. military vessels carrying nuclear weapons, when the
two countries revised the bilateral security treaty in 1960. Yamada, now
deceased, was involved in recording the minutes of discussions on the secret
agreement.
Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada had sought a report from the panel by the end of
February.
The panel has been investigating four secret pacts involving the 1960 revision
of the bilateral security treaty and the 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japan
from U.S. control whose existence had long been denied by Japanese governments.
The panel is set to confirm the legitimacy of three of the four pacts -- those
involving Japan's agreement on stopovers and passage of nuclear armed U.S.
warships, use of U.S. military bases in the event of a contingency on the
Korean Peninsula, and allowing the United States to bring nuclear weapons into
Okinawa in times of emergency.
It will continue searching for documents that would prove the remaining pact
allegedly involves Japan's sharing the cost of the reversion of Okinawa.
The panel is also to define the character of a document that has recently been
found to have been kept by the family of the late former Japanese Prime
Minister Eisaku Sato.
The document dated November 1969 carries the signatures of then Prime Minister
Sato and then U.S. President Richard Nixon, with minutes of a secret
conversation between the two leaders for allowing the United States to
introduce nuclear weapons into Okinawa in the event of a contingency.
==Kyodo
A Japanese government panel decided Sunday to postpone filing a report on its
investigations into four Japan-U.S. secret pacts on nuclear arms and other
issues until the end of March as it needs more time to review materials that
have been gathered by its members.
At its sixth meeting over the task, the panel also decided to ask Yoshihisa
Hara, a graduate school professor at Tokyo International University, to present
an audiotape on which he recorded an interview with former Vice Foreign
Minister Hisanari Yamada.
Yamada is believed to have said during the interview in October 1981 that Tokyo
gave tacit approval for stopovers in Japan or passing through Japanese
territorial waters by U.S. military vessels carrying nuclear weapons, when the
two countries revised the bilateral security treaty in 1960. Yamada, now
deceased, was involved in recording the minutes of discussions on the secret
agreement.
Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada had sought a report from the panel by the end of
February.
The panel has been investigating four secret pacts involving the 1960 revision
of the bilateral security treaty and the 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japan
from U.S. control whose existence had long been denied by Japanese governments.
The panel is set to confirm the legitimacy of three of the four pacts -- those
involving Japan's agreement on stopovers and passage of nuclear armed U.S.
warships, use of U.S. military bases in the event of a contingency on the
Korean Peninsula, and allowing the United States to bring nuclear weapons into
Okinawa in times of emergency.
It will continue searching for documents that would prove the remaining pact
allegedly involves Japan's sharing the cost of the reversion of Okinawa.
The panel is also to define the character of a document that has recently been
found to have been kept by the family of the late former Japanese Prime
Minister Eisaku Sato.
The document dated November 1969 carries the signatures of then Prime Minister
Sato and then U.S. President Richard Nixon, with minutes of a secret
conversation between the two leaders for allowing the United States to
introduce nuclear weapons into Okinawa in the event of a contingency.
==Kyodo
