Symbolic acts can play an important role in bringing negotiations to a close.
U.S. negotiators demanded a 17-percent upward revaluation of the yen. The Japanese Finance Minister feigned illness and canceled his meeting with the American Secretary of the Treasury in order to avoid being forced into making concessions. Treasury Secretary Connally met instead with Deputy Minister Kashiwagi. Kashiwagi stated that seventeen percent was an unacceptable figure. Connally promptly proposed a 16.9-percent revaluation, which Kashiwagi accepted.