U.S. officials badgered Japan to send minesweepers to the Persian Gulf in 1987, according to diplomatic documents released by the Foreign Ministry on Dec. 21.
This book by Japanese historian Ryuji Hattori is all the more interesting due to his deep knowledge of the key players and essential declassified documents.
When former Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone visited Iraq during the Persian Gulf crisis in 1990, he spoke frankly with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, urging him to pull out of Kuwait within a month or risk U.S. military involvement.
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