Japan to come clean on secret nuke deals with US (AP)

January 11, 2010 3:01 am | world

In this Nov. 19, 1969 file photo, U.S. President Richard Nixon, right, welcomes Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington when the two leaders were holding talks concerning the return of Okinawa to Japanese control. Japan's new Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has ordered a panel of ministry officials and academics to investigate secret agreements, including ones signed by Nixon and Sato in 1969, long hidden in Foreign Ministry files that allowed nuclear-armed U.S. warships to enter Japanese ports, violating a hallowed principle of postwar Japan. Yet their very existence was officially denied. (AP Photo/File)AP – To the government’s critics, it was a long and shocking act of official stonewalling: Agreements long hidden in Foreign Ministry files allowed nuclear-armed U.S. warships to enter Japanese ports, violating a hallowed principle of postwar Japan. Yet their very existence was officially denied.


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