Japan should try to let the U.S. presence be more broad-based in Southeast Asia through a 1960 bilateral security pact and a 1977 pro-ASEAN initiative launched by then Japanese Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda to help stabilize the region, a former senior Singapore diplomat has said
Japan requested U.S. to amend neutrality over Senkakus in 1970s
The Japanese government had requested the United States to amend its neutral stance regarding Japan s sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands in April 1978, but Washington rejected it, according to declassified U.S. government documents.
The documents, obtained by Kyodo News from the U.S. National Archives, also showed that the U.S. government had declined to alter its impartiality over the Japanese-controlled, Chinese-claimed islands in the East China Sea on the basis that the U.S. government s position on Senkakus dispute had not changed since 1972 when Okinawa, including the uninhabited islets, reverted to Japan.
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A Chinese fishing vessel enters the Japanese territorial waters around the Senkaku Islands in April 1978. | KYODO
Kyodo May 3, 2021
The Japanese government asked the United States to amend its neutral stance on Japan’s sovereignty over the Senkaku Islands in April 1978, a request Washington rejected, declassified U.S. government documents have shown.
The documents, obtained by Kyodo News from the U.S. National Archives, also showed that the American government had declined to alter its impartiality over the Japanese-controlled, Chinese-claimed islands in the East China Sea on the basis that the U.S. government’s “position on Senkakus dispute had not changed since 1972,” when Okinawa Prefecture, including the uninhabited i