necessity to study measures to
immediately restrict total
demand. All-out consideration
should be given to stabilizing
the people's livelihood and
steps should be taken to save
smaller enterprises from bank-
ruptcy, they acknowledged.

These broad measures will be
further discussed at a Cabinet
meeting Thursday and are like-
ly to be approved Friday.

government to be more efficient
and be ready with widespread
consumer rationing.

The immediate goal is to cut
3 million barrels a day of wh
President Nixon calls "fat"
American energy uses—while
he estimated would overcon-
the already expected shortag
plus the effect of the Ara
cutting off oil exports to t
United States.

‘Modest Raise’
In Rice Price

A compromise was reached
Tuesday within the Liberal-
Democratic Party on the issue
of consumer prices of rice and
wheat, pointing to the possibili-
ty of an upward adjustment by
margins smaller than those pro-
posed by the government.

The compromise, which came
at the day's meeting of the
LDP Policy Affairs Research
Council, was referred to top
executives of the LDP for a
final decision.

The compromise called for the
government to "give some con-
sideration to the proposed mar-
gins of increase."

In a move to break the im-
passe over the issue, which has
been dividing the party, council
discussions were continued with
the presence of Finance Minis-
ter Kiichi Aichi, Agriculture-
Forestry Minister Yoshio Sa-
kurauchi and Economic Plan-
ning Agency Director General
Zentaro Kosaka.

At the meeting, Liberal-Dem-
ocratic members of the Diet,
seeking to protect the interests
of their electoral constituencies,
urged the government to with-
draw its proposed increases, but
others demanded that it go

ahead with the plan.

Members from urban constituencies contended that rice and wheat prices should be pegged to the prevailing consumer price levels as part of government efforts to curb the price spiral.

Those who were opposed
this, particularly those fro
agricultural areas, warned th
a price freeze might undermi
the government's plan to mo
forward with its general ag
cultural policy.

Discussions centered on the
price of rice and almost no o-
jections were raised to the pr
posed 35 per cent increase
the price of wheat. The propo-
ed increase for rice was 13
per cent.

Meanwhile, the House
Councillors special committ-
on commodity prices unani-
ously adopted a resolution ca-
ling for the government to pe
consumer prices for rice an
wheat to the current level
prices.

The resolution, jointly sponsored by all the parties except the Japan Communist Party, was handed to Economic Planning Agency Director General Zentaro Kosaka.

Though we cannot fully support the Arab strategy of utilizing the oil question as diplomatic pressure, we must also admit that the Japanese Government has not always been eager to understand the Arabs' position in the Middle East situation. One reason may be that Japan, as an ally of the United States which has supported Israel all along, has tried to be neutral in the Middle East conflict with a noncommittal attitude, which might have appeared unfriendly to the Arabs.

In compliance with the Arab countries' recent request for Japan's support, the Government confirmed its opposition to the use of military power in expanding territories, and its support of the 1967 U.N. Security Council resolution demanding Israel's withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories, and, at the same time, expressed Japan's "understanding" of the Arabs' desire for restoring their territories in a verbal note delivered to Arab countries. The Foreign Ministry claims that this pronounced Japanese stand expresses Japan's pro-Arab feeling. Arab nations, however, are not quite satisfied, and they are said to be pressing Japan to sever diplomatic and trade relations with Israel and give Arab nations military aid.

Of course, Japan cannot and should not cut diplomatic ties without a justifiable reason, nor should it extend military aid to any foreign countries in violation of our peaceful Constitution. If the Arabs are really making such requests, Japan must try to make them understand its peaceful diplomatic principles which forbid any form of intervention in a military conflict. If necessary, the Government should summon a meeting of Japanese ambassadors stationed in the Middle East, or dispatch a high-caliber diplomat to Middle Eastern countries to explain Japan's diplomatic principles.

At the same time, Japan can make its voice heard louder in the United Nations and elsewhere in demanding Israel's withdrawal from Arab territories which it has been occupying since the Six-Day War in 1967. And, though military aid is prohibited, Japan can extend peaceful technical cooperation to Arab or any other nations.

In any event, Japan should formulate its own Middle East diplomacy. Just listening to what Mr. Kissinger says is not enough.

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EDITORIAL

Japan's Middle East Policy

AMERICAN Secretary of State Dr. Kissinger's visit to Japan Wednesday warrants a review of Japan's relations with Middle Eastern countries and the United States. One of the important topics between Japanese leaders and the visiting U.S. Secretary of State is certainly the oil problem.

The fact that the Japanese Government has delayed, until hearing what Mr. Kissinger has to say, its decision on proposed emergency domestic measures to cope with the energy crisis exemplifies the great expectation the Government has on the talks with the globe-trotting troubleshooter.

The Government must be reminded, however, that the Japanese and American interests in the Middle East are not identical. Japan's dependence on oil from the Middle East is far greater than that of the Americans. In fact, it is a matter of life and death for Japan, while the United States can survive the crisis with much less impact.

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Curb On Oil
Use Starting
Next Week

Japan is likely to start restricting oil consumption from November 19, according to an agreement reached by Cabinet members Tuesday.

The four ministers were Finance Minister Kiichi Aichi, International Trade and Industry Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, Economic Planning Agency Director General Zentaro Kosaka and Chief Cabinet Secretary Susumu Nikaido.

The four agreed to call for conservation of oil and electricity by government agencies and the public. They also agreed to submit emergency legislation on the introduction of an oil rationing system to the Diet at the next ordinary session for immediate passage.

Measures to prevent various makers from raising prices by taking advantage of the oil shortage and to stop makers from forming illegal cartels will be studied to cope with the aggravating consumer price spiral.

They also agreed on the

Oil Rationing
Okayed In Us

WASHINGTON (UPI)—The Senate Interior Committee has proved a bill Monday to require President Nixon to order rationing of “scarce fuel” and give him short-term emergency power to change the American outlook on energy use.

The language of the bill does not specifically order gasoline rationing, but the committee said it was its intent that gas line be included as a “scarce fuel” that the bill says should be rationed without delay.

The bill, passed 8-1, authorizes Nixon to take a list of steps to shift fuels neediest users, persuade people to conserve energy, force

Kissinger Due
In Japan Today

The U.S. Secretary of State will fly into Tokyo International Airport today at 1.20 p.m. from China amid the whirlwind of economic crisis sweeping the nation.

The problem that has given a near-death blow to the ever-expanding Japanese economy is a mere, simple three-letter word—oil.

The Arabs insist that there will be no lifting of the oil embargo and curtailment of oil shipments to the nations "unfriendly" to them.

Viewing this situation seriously, the government handed a note verbale recently to 10 Arab countries' ambassadors and later confirmed at a cabinet meeting that Japan supports U.N. Resolution 242 which calls for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the territories they have occupied since the Six-Day War.

Apparently the government believes that the announcement is sufficient to clarify the Japanese stand which has become more, pro-Arab.

Japan had been extending $10,000 to $50,000 in relief funds annually to the U.N. Palestine refugee program until 1967.

In 1970 the amount increased to $350,000 and in 1971, to $710,000. Last year the figure rose to $750,000 and this year the figure has totaled $1,100,000, ranking seventh in the world.

Moreover, the government earlier this year decided to contribute $1 million for the relief of Egyptian soldiers wounded during the latest war.

Despite these steps, which Japan considers "pro-Arab," however, Arabs still seem to view Japan as "not a friendly" nation.

An unconfirmed report says that Arab states are asking Japan to sever diplomatic relations with Israel, supply military equipment to Arabs and train military personnel.

As Japan is prohibited from exporting weapons to any nations involved in international conflicts under Japan's warrenouncing Constitution, it would not be able to meet the Arab demands.

Also, it is next to impossible to break off ties with Israel since that would be contrary to international custom: Israel has done nothing to force Japan to terminate her relations with the former.

As these measures, which the Arabs might seek or have sought, could not be considered feasible now, the government is mapping out countermeasures to cope with the aggravating economic situation resulting from the oil shortage.

Against this background, Henry Kissinger is arriving this afternoon.

Upon his arrival, the Secretary of State will hold a two-hour meeting with Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira at the Foreign Ministry.

After meeting with Finance Minister Kiichi Aichi at Hotel Okura Thursday morning, he will call on Prime Minister Kakuie Tanaka at his official residence for a one-hour meeting around noon.

Kissinger will meet with MITI Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone for 30 minutes early in the afternoon to exchange views on the oil situation.

Through this series of conferences, the Japanese Government hopes to obtain the latest information on the Mideast situation from Kissinger who has visited the Soviet Union and Arab nations in working out the Middle East truce accord.

After careful and intensive discussions with Kissinger, the government is likely to move much closer to the side of the Arabs, firstly increasing aid to the national development of each Arab state as well as its contribution to the U.N. Palestinian refugee funds.

Soviet Press Campaign:

Dissidents Denounce
As Saboteurs Of

PARIS (AFP)—The doctrinal review of the Soviet Communist Party, Kommunist, published in the latest edition to reach Paris a 23-page editorial entitled “International relations and the ideological struggle.” The editorial provides the theoretical

arsenal for the new stage of the campaign being waged by Soviet authorities against dissidence in that country.

The aim is clearly to show that opinion in the Soviet Union, indeed throughout the Communist world, China excepted, is unanimous that under present conditions it is necessary to defend the values and principles of socialism against the attacks, lies and subversive actions to which the Communist states are constantly subjected by their internal and external enemies.

This new stage would apparently consist in organizing a vast popular movement by associating the non-Communists (workers, farm-workers, intellectuals, etc.) with party members.

Together, they would condemn the activities of the dissidents and deprive them of any following by presenting them as a handful of people manipulated by the most reactionary and even notoriously fascist Western circles, whose aim is to torpedo international detente and to prejudice by all possible means the Soviet state and people.

In this context Kommunisti violently attacks the academician Andrei Sakharov, the most virulent of the Soviet dissidents. The review said that his recent statements did not reflect the opinion of the Soviet people. Nor did they express any original analytical thought, suited to the scientist. They were merely an electric mixture of Western imported cliches which are part of the usual arsenal of anti-Soviet propaganada. They tend to compromise the detente by ascribing to Soviet foreign policy secret objectives that do not exist. Sakharov enjoys support and encouragement only abroad among the

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Kissinger, Ohira
Discuss Charter

U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger told Japanese Foreign Minister Masayoshi Ohira Wednesday that the United States strongly hopes that Japan will participate in the Kissinger-proposed new Atlantic Charter. He also said that the U.S. will not give up the idea of creating the charter. The charter is to comprise the U.S., Europe and Japan.

This was revealed by Ohira at a press conference at the Foreign Ministry where he talked with Kissinger for two hours and 20 minutes Wednesday afternoon.

Kissinger arrived in Tokyo from China at 1.55 p.m. aboard a special plane.

Ohira told newsmen that further consultation on the new Atlantic Charter will continue between Kissinger and Japanese Ambassador to Washington Takeshi Yasukawa.

The talks, Ohira said, centered on the Middle East issue. Ohira asked Kissinger for his opinion on the current situation in the Mideast and what would be the ultimate outcome of the dispute.

But Ohira declined to reveal Kissinger's reply due to a prior agreement between the two. "My impression is," Ohira said, "that Mr. Kissinger seemed to be very earnest about settling the Mideast conflict soon and is determined to make every possible effort to do so."

Ohira also explained in detail the Japanese position on the current oil crisis. Ohira told Kissinger that Japan has imported almost all its oil requirements from abroad, and

that more than 70 per cent of the imported oil has come from the Middle East.

Ohira also told Kissinger that Japan has suffered the most since oil supplies were curtailed. He said not only the daily activities of the people but Japan's major industries, too, have been greatly handicapped by the oil shortage.

Ohira told the press that Kissinger said that he "fully understood" Ohira's explanation.

On Thursday Kissinger will hold talks separately with Finance Minister Kiichi Aichi, Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and International Trade and Industry Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.

Secretary of State Kissinger conferring with Foreign Minister Ohira Wednesday.

POSSIBLY as a form of protest against expensive funerals and burials, so-called "flying funerals" are reported gaining a certain amount of popularity in California.

There is, as might be expected, a certain amount of opposition to this. But according to one of San Francisco's 35 funeral parlors, about 60 per cent of its 400 "customers" annually are cremated and 40 per cent embalmed for burial. Of those cremated, approximately 100 are given a "flying funeral." The number is said to have doubled during the past one year.

Once a week, a light plane of a small transport company takes the ashes of from 10 to 15 deceased persons and places them in an auto drop. As the plane circles a spot in the Pacific Ocean, the ashes are dropped one by one. Later the pilot sends a signed report to the family members, informing them exactly where and at what time each drop was made.

Among those requesting "flying funerals," costing from $30 to $50 (approx. ¥8,000-¥13,000), according to the advertisements, are family members who are unable to buy burial ground.

Thus the economic reason is the major factor behind "flying funerals." It is said that embalming, de luxe caskets, and other payments could easily bring a funeral bill up to the equivalent of ¥599,000.

There are religions that do not bury the dead but scatter the ashes in a river. Especially when death occurs in a foreign land, it is believed that such remains will be carried to the sea and eventually back to the homeland.

During the last war in Japan, there were cases of ashes deposited in a temple for later burial being scattered all over when that temple was destroyed in an air-raid.

Although perhaps not as much as in the United States, Japanese funerals can likewise be expensive. Will "flying funerals" make their appearance here also? There are, of course, two deterrents. One is religious sentiment. The other is a law that states that remains of a deceased person cannot be "buried" elsewhere than in a graveyard.

US, China Set
For Better Ties

UPI

The United States and China Wednesday agreed to expand their liaison offices in Washington and Peking, exchanges of experts and artists and mutual trade in an acceleration of the momentum toward eventual establishment of diplomatic relations.

In a joint communique, issued in Tokyo following the four-day visit of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to Peking, Chinese leaders "reiterated that the normalization of relations between China and the United States can be realized only on the basis of confirming the principle of one China."

High ranking American officials said the Chinese statement represented a subtle advance which could lead to a possible breakthrough in the push to establish formal diplomatic relations.

They said it requires the United States to recognize the principle of "one China" which will be explored for its delicate nuances. In talks between Kissinger and Premier Chou En-lai, officials said the slight shift in the Chinese approach "made

no specific demands for any specific action."

Officials said the communique is a "surface statement" which they "expect and hope will permit a definite evolution toward normalization of relations."

The momentum, they added, was speeded by the visit of Kissinger to China.

There was speculation that the U.S. and China may be able to finesse the question of Taiwan where the Nationalist Chinese Government is headquartered.

In line with the Shanghai communique issued February 28, 1972 following the summit visit of President Nixon to Peking, U.S. troops on Taiwan are progressively being reduced. There are now some 6,500 to 8,000 troops on Taiwan.

The two sides noted that "international relationships are in a period of intense change."

Officials said that all international problems were reviewed, including Vietnam where there has been a new flareup.

Officials said that the Indo-China cease-fire is not going smoothly but they do not expect a major eruption again.

Party is still a minority representation. However, the advance which it has made signifies expanded political influence. This growth is reflected in the confidence in which the party carries out its political activities.

The agenda of the convention calls for a partial revision of the party constitution and regulations and debates on the draft of the "government of democratic alliance." The position of the present leadership revolving around Chairman Miyamoto seems secure, but a "rejuvenation" of officials is expected in order to bring up future leaders.

The revisions of the party program and regulations are aimed at consolidating Chairman Miyamoto's line of independence from outside influence, reforms based on parliamentary procedures and a turn toward flexibility in posture. The focus at the convention, however, will be the debates on the "democratic alliance" concept.

To some extent, the public has taken note of the flexibility shown in the announced draft. However, there seems to be a deep sense of distrust among other Opposition parties as to the ultimate aims of the Communist Party. The public also has its doubts.

The party is obligated to make its position crystal clear. Moreover, the Communist Party has been charged with dogmatism because of its severe criticism of other parties. This may be a natural course to take for any political party to increase its strength. But the criticisms are a big departure from the soft-toned draft revisions of the party covenants. There is need for an explanation.

'Flying Funerals'

# U.S., China To Expand Exchanges

By United Press International

In a joint communique, issued here following the four-day visit of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger to Peking, Chinese leaders "reiterated that the normalization of relations between China and the U.S. can be realized only on the basis of confirming the principle of one China."

High-ranking American officials said the Chinese statement represented a subtle advance which could lead to a possible breakthrough in the push to establish formal diplomatic relations.

Officials said the communique represented "a substantial identity of views over the direction" of Sino-American relations in the future.

They said on the Chinese side, Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung provided the "nuances" of policy direction while Chou handled the details.

"The two sides agreed that in present circumstances it is of particular importance to maintain frequent contact at authoritative levels in order to exchange views and, while not negotiating on behalf of third parties, to engage in concrete consultations of mutual concern," the communique said.

The communique noted that trade between the two countries has leaped rapidly in the past two years (from $14 million to

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U.S., China

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$800 million), and agreed "to take measures to create conditions for further expansion of relations in the economic field."

"The two sides stated that they would continue their efforts to promote the normalization of relations between China and the United States on the basis of the Shanghai communique," according to the statement.

Much of the language in the document was similar to the Shanghai communique. It said the conversations between Kissinger and Mao were "wide-ranging and far-sighted in a friendly atmosphere."

Officials indicated that Mao was thinking of the future and the role China will play.

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the general outline of emergency oil countermeasures on the basis of the agreement reached at the meeting of the four Ministers, held yesterday, and to reach a formal decision at the Cabinet meeting, slated for the 16th.

At the meeting held yesterday, ITI Minister NAKASONE explained his outlook and his way of thinking, saying as follows: "The prospects are that oil imports will start to decrease from the second half of November, and that the amount of such imports will be reduced by about 20 percent from the original estimate by December. With regard to prospects for after next January, the situation is fluid. Under such circumstances, I intend to reduce the supply of oil to big consumers of industrial circles by 10 percent from December. However, it will also probably become necessary

securities company out of ¥90 million by fabricating a story that the cash had been stolen.

Charged with fraud were Shinichi Kikuchi, 43, board chairman of Ad Create Co., of Banpu-cho, Shinjuku Ward; Hiroshi Watanabe, 40, adviser of the company; and Yuhei Hatakawa, 41, a restaurant owner in Obata, Watarai-gun, Mie Prefecture.

The fourth man, Kunio Emori, 25, is still at large and the whereabouts of ¥55 million of the "stolen" ¥90 million is not yet known.

According to the prosecutors, Kikuchi, Watanabe and Hatakawa received 300,000 shares of Teikoku Oil Co., from an employee of the Shinjuku branch of Osakaya Securities Co., at the advertisement company's office at about 3:30 p.m. on Oct. 19 and promised to pay for them later, but did not do so.

Kikuchi converted the shares into cash at a finance company in Uchi Kanda, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, later the same day and reported to police that an attachment case containing ¥90 million in cash had disappeared while he was using a pay telephone at a tobacco shop in Uchi Kanda, the prosecutors said.

Prosecutors suspect that the fourth man, Emori, who is still at large, "stole" the attachment case.

They said that the group

Mrs. Lee Hi Ho, wife of Kim Dae Jung, fills an application form for security clearance to apply for a passport at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul Wednesday.

## Processing of Kim's Exit Papers 'Speedy'

Members of the "Committee to Rescue Kim Dae Jung" here said Wednesday that Kim would probably be able to leave South Korea on Nov. 25 for the United States with his wife and son as he wanted.

The committee, represented by Cho Hwal Chun, said that they had learned that the South Korean authorities finished examining Kim's credentials Wednesday.

Kim Dae Jung, the South Korean opposition leader who was freed from house arrest on Oct. 26, submitted his credentials Tuesday to visit the United States later this month.

Cho, who talked by telephone with Kim in Seoul shortly after 2 p.m. Wednesday, said Kim told him that the Korean authorities had completed his security clearance earlier in the day.

Kim told Cho over the phone that he could submit travel documents at any time upon receiving notice from the authorities.

Kim semed to be in high spirits and his voice sounded cheerful, according to Cho who talked with Kim for about 10 minutes.

Overseas travel procedures in South Korea are generally conducted in the order of the presentation of credentials, interview with the authorities, application for passports, presentation of travel documents, and reception of passports.

According to members of the Committee to Rescue Kim Dae Jung, it was unusual that Kim was interviewed by the authori-

ties only one day after he had submitted his credentials.

In view of these developments, they said there was a great possibility that Kim could leave South Korea on Nov. 25 with his wife and son.

## Adachi Arranging For 'Mona Lisa'

Kenji Adachi, director general of the Cultural Affairs Agency, expects to visit Paris around Nov. 25 to arrange for the scheduled exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in Japan next spring, according to Japanese officials.

Adachi hopes to hear French views on the method of transporting the painting to Japan when he confers with Minister of Cultural Affairs Maurice Druon, the officials said.

When "Mona Lisa" was shown in the United States 10 years ago, it was transported by ship on its way to and back from America.

But the agency fears that the French public might be displeased by a two-month absence of the work if ships were used for the Japan exhibition. Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka suggests the use of a French-British Concorde supersonic jet for the transportation.

Adachi is also expected to convey to French officials the Government's wish that President Georges Pompidou will cut the tape at the opening ceremony of the exhibition at Tokyo's National Museum. Pompidou has been invited to visit Japan next spring.

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## For Honeymoon

AP

LONDON, Nov. 14—A radiant Princess Anne married the commoner of her choice, Captain Mark Phillips, Wednesday, then ended London's most glittering royal day for over a decade by slipping off to her cousin's home in south London for the first night of their honeymoon.

The young couple leave Thursday to fly to Barbados for a honeymoon cruise on the royal yacht Britannia.

Married before a worldwide television audience in one of the most public weddings ever, the young couple switched cars on a visit to the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, and slipped out a back entrance.

Court informants said they drove across the Thames River and into Richmond Park to Thatched House Lodge, a royal residence occupied by Princess Anne's cousin, Princess Alexandra and her husband, businessman Angus Ogilvy, and their three children.

The secluded house was loaned to the newlyweds by the Ogilvys who spent the night elsewhere. It stands in the center of the 2,258-acre park in southwest London.

Queen Elizabeth's only daughter and Phillips, son of a sausage company executive, planned to fly Thursday to

sleepy Barbados in the West Indies to begin an 18-day cruising honeymoon in the Caribbean and the Pacific on the plush royal yacht Britannia.

There were no public kisses or tears as the 23-year-old Princess became Mrs. Mark Phillips in the historic Westminster Abbey on London's biggest royal day in more than a decade.

Trumpets blared, drums rolled and choirs sang in the 900-year-old church before 1,800 invited guests and the televised solemnity took England's attention briefly away from threatened oil shortages and economic crisis.

In firm, steady voices, the couple exchanged vows, eyes dry. Television cameras, permitted to show no more than Princess Anne's veiled profile, carried the scene around the world.

Princess Anne was dazzling in a white silk gown and diamond tiara. Mark wore a red dress uniform, spurs and sword.

### Shaw Apologizes

AP

SAIGON, Nov. 15—Hongkong movie king Run Run Shaw has apologized to South Vietnam for use of the term “Vietnam Rose” in one of his movies to describe a deadly strain of venereal disease, a government spokesman announced Wednesday.

## Countdown Again
For Skylab 3

Reuter

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Nov. 14—Officials today resumed the countdown for the third and final Skylab mission which will send three astronauts into space on Friday.

The countdown was picked up at 0230 local time (0730 GMT) following last night's declaration by Skylab officials that the Saturn launch rocket was safe for flight.

The launch has twice been postponed because cracks were found in two separate parts of the rocket which will carry mission commander Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Carr, Lieutenant-Colonel William Pogue and Dr. Edward Gibson up to the orbiting space station.

Although the rocket's fins have been replaced and the couplings holding the two stages together strengthened, Skylab program

SIDELIGHTS

The following is a translation of the Sidelight column in The Yomiuri Shimbun.

I have recently visited the Special Investigators Training School at the Police Academy in Nakano-ku, Tokyo.

The school is designed to give thorough, intensive training to students who are carefully selected from among veteran police investigators throughout the country.

They will eventually become top police investigators in their respective prefectures upon completion of the half-year course, during which they all are required to live in a boarding house, like an army training camp.

The school was opened in 1967 and so far it has graduated 12 classes each with 30 students.

When I visited the school, the 13th class of students was receiving lessons.

I talked with some of the students on the reporting of crimes by the news media.

Our discussion was almost like a lesson in the school and the students were eager to learn about how reporters gathered their news.

I was highly impressed by the interest shown in almost everything by these students who will become the top police investigators in the country.

One student said: "I am puzzled about where to draw the line in giving out police information on crimes in regard to protecting the basic human rights of persons involved."

Another student said: "I want to keep my investigations secret but reporters persistently pressure police for information. Do editors encourage their reporters to violate the Public Service Employes Law, which protects official secrets?"

These seem to be reasonable questions from police in-

ews have long made it a with each individual investi- and-the-clock.

intimate contact leads to a press and the police.

necessary to keep in close ligating a crime and that it s.

n reporting on crimes, they og duty of the press. They

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Man Found Guilty On Testimony By 3-Year Old Girl

The Tokyo District Court Wednesday accepted the testimony of a three-year old girl and convicted a truck driver who molested the girl and inflicted injuries on her in his truck parked near her home in Minami-Shinozaki, Edogawaku, in August this year.

The court sentenced the truck driver—Takao Takahashi, 35-to four years in prison for molesting and inflicting injuries on the girl, identified as "A," between 1.30 pm on August 4 and 1.20 pm on August 5.

The court said that the testimony given by "A" was as dependable as a testimony given by an adult.

This was the fourth time since 1966 that a court in Japan had used the testimony of a small child in convicting a defendant.

The company's contracted distributors throughout the country were notified of the increased prices.

The company explained it was compelled to raise the prices as a result of a big increase in crude oil import prices in the wake of production cutbacks by Arab oil-producing countries.

Other oil refining companies are expected to follow suit.

Under the new rates, the wholesale price of gasoline is raised by ¥10,000 per kiloliter to ¥27,000.

The new price of kerosene for industrial use is ¥18,000, up ¥6,000 per kiloliter, light oil ¥17,000, up ¥5,000 per kiloliter, and naphtha ¥13,000, up ¥5,000 per kiloliter.

The wholesale prices of heavy oils were also raised by between ¥5,000 and ¥2,700 per kiloliter.

The wholesale price of kerosene for household use was not raised because the International Trade and Industry Ministry has already frozen the price.

Despite the price freeze, major refineries have indicated

the Japanese fishing industry which depends heavily on deep-sea fishing, will be greatly damaged and the supply of tuna and bonito, favorite dishes for the Japanese during the New Year, will be in short supply.

Seventy fishing boats operating in coastal waters off southern Africa have even sent "SOS" telegrams to the Federation of Tuna and Bonito Fishery Cooperatives Associations in Tokyo, saying that they may not be able to return home within the year because of the lack of fuel.

The telegrams said that Japanese boats have been meeting increasing difficulties in getting oil supplies from ports in the Republic of South Africa, their base ports, since early October when the oil situation became tight.

According to the telegrams, the boats had been receiving

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TOKYO NOV 15 KYODO--JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER KAKUEI TANAKA MET WITH U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER THURSDAY AND REPORTEDLY ASKED FOR U.S. HELP IN MINIMIZING THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF REDUCED ARAB OIL SUPPLIES ON THE JAPANESE ECONOMY.

TANAKA AND KISSINGER MET FOR ONE AND A HALF HOURS AT THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICIAL RESIDENCE, ACCOMPANIED BY FOREIGN MINISTER MASAYOSHI OHIRA AND U.S. AMBASSADOR ROBERT S. INGERSOLL RESPECTIVELY.

INFORMED SOURCES GAVE THIS ACCOUNT OF THE TALKS:

-- AT THE OUTSET, KISSINGER EXPLAINED TO TANAKA IN DETAIL THE PRESENT STATE OF THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT AND ITS FUTURE PROSPECTS.

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-- TANAKA IN TURN TOLD KISSINGER OF THE SERIOUS EFFECTS OF THE REDUCED ARAB CRUDE SUPPLIES ON THE JAPANESE ECONOMY, SAYING THAT IF JAPAN IS TO KEEP ITS ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE AT 5 PER CENT, THE OIL SUPPLY CUT MUST BE KEPT WITHIN 15 PER CENT.

-- TANAKA TOLD KISSINGER THAT JAPAN THUS NEEDS COOPERATION OF THE U.S., ESPECIALLY U.S. MAJOR OIL INTERESTS, TO MINIMIZE THE EFFECTS OF THE OIL SHORTAGE, AND KISSINGER SHOWED FULL UNDERSTANDING ABOUT JAPAN'S POSITION.

-- TANAKA AND KISSINGER THEN AGREED TO MAINTAIN FULL COMMUNICATIONS ON THE OIL PROBLEM.

EMERGING FROM THE CONFERENCE, OHIRA TOLD NEWSMEN THAT HE COULD NOT MAKE ANY PREDICTIONS ON THE OIL QUESTION.

JAPAN WILL CAREFULLY STUDY MEASURES TO COPE WITH THE SITUATION, HE ADDED.

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TOKYO NOV 15 KYODO--FOREIGN MINISTRY SOURCES SAID WEDNESDAY NIGHT THAT THEY COULD FIND NOTHING ''SPECIFICALLY NEW'' IN THE U.S.-CHINA JOINT COMMUNIQUE ISSUED FOLLOWING A FOUR-DAY VISIT TO PEKING BY U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER.

THE SOURCES SAID, HOWEVER, THAT THEY DID NOT BELIEVE THE COMMUNIQUE REFLECTED WHAT HAD BEEN DISCUSSED DURING LENGTHY TALKS BETWEEN KISSINGER AND CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG AND PRIMIER CHOU EN-LAI.

''WE DON'T KNOW WHETHER SOMETHING IS CONCEALED BEHIND THE COMMUNIQUE,'' THEY SAID.

''BUT, WE DON'T SEE ANY SIGN THAT THERE WILL BE A DRAMATIC PROGRESS IN SINO-AMERICAN RELATIONS,'' THEY ADDED.

COMMENTING ON THE WARM WELCOME EXTENDED BY CHINESE OFFICIALS WHILE KISSINGER WAS IN PEKING, THE SOURCES SAID THAT CHINA WAS SHOWING AGAIN ITS DIPLOMATIC STRATEGY CENTERING ON IMPROVEMENT OF ITS RELATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES.

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KISSINGER ARRIVED IN TOKYO BY A SPECIAL PLANE WEDNESDAY AFTER-
NOON FOR A THREE-DAY VISIT ON HIS WAY HOME FROM PEKING.

HIS CURRENT VISIT IS THE FIRST SINCE HE BECAME SECRETARY
OF STATE.

KISSINGER WILL BEGIN HIS TALKS HERE WITH A MEETING WITH
FOREIGN MINISTER MASAYOSHI OHIRA AT THE LATTER'S OFFICE AT
3:30 P.M. HE WILL MEET WITH PRIME MINISTER KAKUEI TANAKA
AT HIS OFFICIAL RESIDENCE AT 11 A.M. THURSDAY.

IN HIS TALKS WITH OHIRA, KISSINGER WILL DISCUSS VARIOUS
DIPLOMATIC ISSUES, INCLUDING THE OUTCOME OF HIS LATEST VISIT
TO PEKING, AND PROBLEMS CONCERNING THE MIDDLE EAST DISPUTE.

OHIRA IS EXPECTED TO ASK KISSINGER TO CLARIFY PROSPECTS
FOR NORMALIZATION OF RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND
CHINA.

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THE TANAKA-KISSINGER TALKS WILL LAST ABOUT AN HOUR.

TANAKA WILL HEAR ABOUT THE PRESENT TRENDS IN THE MIDDLE
EAST DIRECTLY FROM KISSINGER, WHO MEDIATED THE ARAB-ISRAELI
CONFLICT, AND DISCUSS WAYS TO SOLVE THE OIL CRISIS.

KISSINGER IS EXPECTED TO CONFER ALSO WITH FINANCE MINISTER
KICHI AICHI AND YASUHIRO NAKASONE, MINISTER OF INTERNATIONAL
TRADE AND INDUSTRY, LATER ON THURSDAY.

HE IS SCHEDULED TO LEAVE TOKYO FRIDAY MORNING.

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TOKYO NOV 14 KYODO -- VISITING U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER WAS QUOTED WEDNESDAY AS SAYING HE WOULD SPARE NO EFFORTS TO BRING ABOUT A SETTLEMENT OF THE MIDDLE EAST DISPUTE.

INFORMED SOURCES SAID KISSINGER EXPRESSED HIS DETERMINATION WHEN HE CONFERRED WITH JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER MASAYOSHI OHIRA AT THE FOREIGN MINISTRY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON.

THE SOURCES SAID THE KISSINGER-OHIRA TALKS WHICH LASTED FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS, 20 MINUTES CENTERED ON THE MIDDLE EAST SITUATION AND THE CURRENT OIL CRISIS.

THEY SAID KISSINGER ALSO EXPRESSED HOPE THAT JAPAN WOULD PARTICIPATE IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER IN THE SO-CALLED KISSINGER PLAN CALLING FOR A DECLARATION OF COOPERATION AMONG ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL NATIONS.

KISSINGER WAS QUOTED AS TELLING OHIRA HE HAS NOT GIVEN UP HOPE FOR WORKING OUT THE DECLARATION TO BE ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES, JAPAN AND EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.

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KISSINGER AND OHIRA AGREED TO CONTINUE DISCUSSIONS ON THE ISSUE THROUGH DIPLOMATIC CHANNELS.

THE SOURCES SAID OHIRA WAS BRIEFED IN DETAIL ON THE PRESENT MIDDLE EAST SITUATION AND FUTURE OUTLOOK.

AFTER THE MEETING OHIRA TOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE HE FELT KISSINGER WAS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT SETTLING THE MIDDLE EAST AND OIL CRISIS. ''I'M NEITHER OPTIMISTIC NOR PESSIMISTIC NOW,'' HE ADDED.

KISSINGER ARRIVED HERE WEDNESDAY EN ROUTE HOME FROM A VISIT TO THE MIDDLE EAST AND CHINA.

HE IS SCHEDULED TO MEET PRIME MINISTER KAKUEI TANAKA THURSDAY.

CHIEF CABINET SECRETARY AND TANAKA'S SPOKESMAN SUSUMU NIKAIIDO TOLD NEWSMEN HE EXPECTS TANAKA AND KISSINGER TO ENGAGE IN A FRANK EXCHANGE OF VIEWS ON THE MIDDLE EAST SITUATION AND OIL CRISIS.

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THE SOURCES SAID OHIRA ASKED KISSINGER FOR FAVORABLE
CONSIDERATION TO INCREASE CRUDE OIL SUPPLIES TO JAPAN BY
MAJOR AMERICAN OIL COMPANIES TO HELP JAPAN TIDE OVER THE
CURRENT OIL CRISIS.

THEY QUOTED OHIRA AS TELLING KISSINGER THAT JAPAN DEPENDS
ON ARAB COUNTRIES FOR NEARLY 70 PER CENT OF ITS CRUDE OIL
AND ANY REDUCTION BY AMERICAN FIRMS WILL HAVE AN IMMENSE
POLITICAL AND SOCIALIST IMPACT IN JAPAN.

KISSINGER AND OHIRA ALSO DISCUSSED U.S.-CHINESE RELATIONS,
THE SOURCES SAID. KISSINGER STOPPED IN CHINA EN ROUTE TO
TOKYO AND CONFERRED WITH CHINESE LEADERS INCLUDING CHAIRMAN
MAO TSE-TUNG AND PREMIER CHOU EN-LAI ON U.S.-CHINESE RELATIONS.
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OHIRA TOLD NEWSMEN AFTER THE MEETING HE COULD NOT DISCLOSE
DETAILS OF HIS DISCUSSIONS WITH KISSINGER BECAUSE NEGOTIATIONS
BETWEEN EGYPT AND ISRAEL ARE UNDER WAY.

HE REITERATED THAT JAPAN'S BASIC STANCE TOWARD THE
ARAB-ISRAELI DISPUTE REMAINS UNCHANGED.

HE MADE THE STATEMENT WHEN ASKED TO COMMENT ON PRESS
REPORTS THAT ARAB COUNTRIES WANT JAPAN TO BREAK DIPLOMATIC
AND OTHER RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL.

OHIRA ADDED THAT HE WAS BRIEFD ON U.S.-CHINESE RELATIONS
AND HE DID NOT NOTICE ANY CHANGE IN UNITED STATES POLICY
TOWARD CHINA.

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TOKYO -- KISSINGER, WO3, TO UPDATE, INSERT AFTER FOURTH GRAF:

YASUHIRO NAKASONE, THE JAPANESE MINISTER OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY, PRESSED KISSINGER AT A 35-MINUTE AFTERNOON MEETING TO USE HIS INFLUENCE TO ACHIEVE AN EARLY SOLUTION IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

NAKASONE TOLD REPORTERS LATER THAT HE PERSONALLY FAVORS AN EARLY WITHDRAWAL OF ISRAEL FROM TERRITORIES GAINED DURING THE 1967 SIX-DAY WAR.

"I THINK THE COUNTRY WITH THE GREATEST INFLUENCE IS THE UNITED STATES AND SECRETARY KISSINGER HIMSELF," NAKASONE SAID.

THE MINISTER SAID KISSINGER WAS UNABLE TO PROVIDE ANY CONCRETE ASSURANCE THAT JAPAN WILL HAVE AN ADEQUATE SUPPLY OF OIL.

NAKASONE APPARENTLY RAISED WITH KISSINGER A CONTENTION THAT OIL FIRMS ARE TAKING UNFAIR ADVANTAGE OF THE ARAB CUTBACK TO APPLY SQUEEZES OF THEIR OWN.

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TOKYO (AP) - "I'LL HAVE TO LEARN A FOLK DANCE BY THE TIME FOREIGN MINISTER (MASAYOSHI) OHIRA VISITS WASHINGTON," U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER WAS QUOTED AS SAYING BY JAPANESE REPORTERS THURSDAY.

KISSINGER MADE THE REMARK, REPORTERS SAID, AT A JAPANESE BANQUET HELD IN HIS HONOR AT A NOTED GEISHA RESTAURANT IN TSUKIJI, TOKYO, WEDNESDAY NIGHT.

THE IMPROMPTU ENTERTAINMENT INCLUDED A JAPANESE DANCE BY THE HOST AND AMBASSADOR ROBERT INGERSOLL PLAYING HIS HARMONICA.

KISSINGER WAS SO DELIGHTED, REPORTERS SAID, THAT HE TOLD OHIRA HE WOULD HAVE TO LEARN A FOLK DANCE.
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BY BARRY SCHWEID

TOKYO (AP) - SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER TURNED HIS ATTENTION TO U.S.-JAPANESE RELATIONS WEDNESDAY AFTER FLYING INTO JAPAN FROM CHINA, WHERE HE AND PEKING'S COMMUNIST LEADERS AGREED TO INCREASE CONTACTS.

A COMMUNIQUE PUBLISHED AFTER KISSINGER'S DEPARTURE FROM PEKING INCLUDED U.S. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT ''THERE IS BUT ONE CHINA AND THAT TAIWAN IS PART OF CHINA.''

THIS SUPPORTED THE PRINCIPLE THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE CHINA, A SENSITIVE ISSUE IN THE LONG-STANDING DISPUTE BETWEEN PEKING AND THE NATIONALIST REGIME ON TAIWAN. A SENIOR OFFICIAL IN KISSINGER'S PARTY SAID IT WOULD BE EXPLORED FURTHER THROUGH DIPLOMATIC CHANNELS IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.

THE COMMUNIQUE SAID SCIENTIFIC, CULTURAL AND BUSINESS EXCHANGES WILL BE INCREASED. TO REASSURE THE CHINESE THAT U.S. DETENTE WITH THE SOVIET UNION IS NOT DIRECTED AGAINST CHINA, KISSINGER JOINED IN RENOUNCING DOMINATION IN THE PACIFIC OR ELSEWHERE AND OPPOSING ''EFFORTS BY ANY OTHER COUNTRY OR GROUP OF COUNTRIES'' TO DOMINATE IN ANY AREA.

KISSINGER'S JAPANESE HOSTS, WORRIED BY THE CUTBACK IN MIDDLE EAST OIL, WERE MORE INTERESTED IN THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S REPORT ON HIS TOUR OF THE MIDDLE EAST THROUGH BEFORE HE WENT TO CHINA. FOREIGN MINISTER MASAYOSHI OHIRA SAID THE MIDDLE EAST AND OIL SUPPLIES WOULD BE THE CHIEF AGENDA TOPIC FOR KISSINGER'S TWO-DAY VISIT.

TOKYO -- KISSINGER 2

AFTER AN INITIAL MEETING OF MORE THAN TWO HOURS, OHIRA TOLD NEWSMEN HE HAD RECEIVED THE IMPRESSION THAT KISSINGER HAD ''EXERTED STRENUOUS EFFORTS AND DETERMINATION'' TO SOLVE THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT.

REGARDING PEKING, OHIRA SAID HE HAD THE IMPRESSION THERE WOULD BE NO SHARP OR SUDDEN CHANGE IN RELATIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND CHINA.

A TOP KISSINGER AIDE DESCRIBED THE U.S.-CHINESE COMMUNIQUE ''AN ATTEMPT TO MOVE FORWARD ALONG THE ROAD TOWARD NORMALIZATION.''

KISSINGER AND THE CHINESE AGREED TO STEP UP THE ACTIVITIES OF THEIR LIAISON OFFICES IN WASHINGTON AND PEKING. THE DETAILS OF INCREASES IN TRADE AND OTHER EXCHANGES WERE TO BE WORKED OUT BY LOWER RANKING OFFICIALS.

WHILE WAITING FOR KISSINGER TO ARRIVE AT TOKYO AIRPORT, THE JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER TOLD NEWSMEN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE OIL SHORTAGE WERE HIS CHIEF CONCERNS.

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BY DARRY SCHWEID

TOKYO (AP) SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY A. KISSINGER WEDNESDAY FLEW IN FOR TALKS WITH JAPANESE LEADERS HAVING ASSURED CHAIRMAN MAO TSE-TUNG AND PREMIER CHOU EN-LAI THAT EVEN A CHANGE IN ADMINISTRATIONS WOULD NOT LOOSE U.S. TIES WITH CHINA.

KISSINGER SPENT A TOTAL OF 16 HOURS WITH MAO AND CHOU AND CAME AWAY CONVINCED THAT ON THE CHINESE SIDE THE DRIVE FOR A CLOSER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNITED STATES IS GATHERING MOMENTUM.

AT THE SAME TIME, MAO BELIEVES THE SOVIET UNION WITH ONE MILLION TROOPS MASSED ALONG THE NORTHERN FRONTIER POSES AN IMMINENT DANGER TO CHINA. KISSINGER FOUND MAO, 80 NEXT MONTH, VIGOROUS AND VERY MUCH THE MAN IN CHARGE OF CHINA'S POLITICAL APPARATUS AND FOREIGN POLICY.

IN A TOAST AT DINNER TUESDAY NIGHT THE WATERGATE DIFFICULTIES OF PRESIDENT NIXON APPEARED TO BE ON KISSINGER'S MIND.

"THE PROGRESS THAT HAS BEEN MADE IN OUR RELATIONSHIP WILL BE CONTINUED IN THE YEARS AHEAD, WHATEVER HAPPENS IN THE FUTURE AND WHATEVER THE ADMINISTRATION," HE SAID.

BUT A SENIOR U.S. OFFICIAL WHO DECLINED USE OF HIS NAME SAID KISSINGER WAS SIMPLY TRYING TO REASSURE THE CHINESE, WHO PLAN FOR THE LONG HAUL, THAT DEMOCRATS ALSO SUPPORT NIXON'S POLICY OF "NORMALIZING RELATIONS" WITH PEKING.

THIS OFFICIAL SAID EN ROUTE TO TOKYO THAT WATERGATE "PLAYED NEXT TO NO ROLE" IN KISSINGER'S TALKS WITH MAO AND CHOU, ALTHOUGH LOWER-LEVEL CHINESE PROBED FOR ITS POSSIBLE IMPACT ON U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THEIR TALKS WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN DELEGATION.

A COMMUNIQUE POINTING THE WAY TO CLOSER TIES BETWEEN THE TWO COUNTRIES WILL BE ISSUED LATER.

KISSINGER'S 2 3/4-HOUR SESSION WITH MAO AT HIS HOME IN THE FORBIDDEN CITY WAS THE LONGEST WITH A FOREIGN VISITOR IN TWO YEARS. DAVID K.E. BRUCE, HEAD OF THE U.S. LIAISON OFFICE, ATTENDED. THIS, IN ITSELF, WAS UNUSUAL. AMBASSADORS IN PEKING RARELY ARE INVITED TO SEE PREMIER CHOU LET ALONE CHAIRMAN MAO.

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MAO TOOK THE LEAD IN THE CONVERSATION.

KISSINGER SPOKE WITH CHOU SIX TIMES. HE WAS WITH HIM UNTIL 3 A.M., AND THEN AGAIN FOR THREE-QUARTERS OF AN HOUR BEFORE THE SECRETARY OF STATE LEFT FOR JAPAN.

IN THESE TALKS, KISSINGER ENCOUNTERED ALMOST NONE OF THE COMMUNIST RHETORIC THAT DOMINATED PAST SESSIONS. INSTEAD, HE DEALT WITH PRACTICAL LEADERS EAGER TO KNOW IF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SUPPORTED THE BUILDING OF BRIDGES TO CHINA DECLARED IN THE SHANGHAI COMMUNIQUE SIGNED BY NIXON IN A TRIP TO CHINA IN FEBRUARY, 1972.

IN JAPAN, KISSINGER MET FIRST WITH FOREIGN MINISTER MASAYOSHI OHIRA AND, ON THURSDAY, WAS TO SEE PRIME MINISTER KAKUEI TANAKA. HE WLL REPORT ON HIS VISIT TO CHINA, DISCUSS JAPAN'S ROLE IN A PLANNED NEW ATLANTIC DECLARATION INVOVING THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE AND THE EFFECT ON JAPAN OF CUTBACKS IN ARAB OIL PRODUCTION.

OHIRA MET KISSINGER AT TOKYO AIRPORT WHEN THE SECRETARY'S PLANE TOUCHED DOWN AFTER A FLIGHT FROM PEKING AND SHANGHAI.

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TOKYO (AF)-U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE HENRY KISSINGER ARRIVED IN JAPAN FROM CHINA WEDNESDAY FOR TALKS WITH JAPANESE LEADERS WORRIED BY A MOUNTING CRISIS IN OIL SUPPLIES FROM THE MIDDLE EAST.

KISSINGER, FRESH FROM NEW DIPLOMATIC POLICY INITIATIVES IN PEKING, WAS MET BY FOREIGN MINISTER MASAYOSHI OHIRA WHEN HIS SPECIAL PLANE TOUCHED DOWN HERE AFTER A FLIGHT FROM PEKING AND SHANGHAI.

OHIRA EARLIER TOLD NEWSMEN AT THE AIRPORT THAT THE MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT AND RESULTING OIL SHORTAGES WOULD BE AT THE TOP OF THE TWO-DAY AGENDA FOR THE KISSINGER VISIT.

"IT IS A PROBLEM I THINK ABOUT DAY AND NIGHT," HE SAID, ADDING THAT THE JAPANESE GOVERNMENT IS CONFRONTED WITH A TOTAL CHANGE IN ITS ECONOMIC POLICY AS A RESULT OF THE COURTAILMENT OF ARAB OIL SHIPMENTS.

HE SAID THAT HE WOULD ASK KISSINGER "FOR GUIDANCE" IN THE DELICATE MOVES TOWARD THE ARABS AND ISRAEL WHICH THE JAPANESE NOW ARE CONSIDERING. SAUDI ARABI IS REPORTED TO HAVE TOLD JAPAN THAT IF IT DOES NOT BREAK RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL, IT WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE A REDUCED AMOUNT OF OIL.

KISSINGER WAS ACCOMPANIED BY U.S. AMBASSADOR TO JAPAN ROBERT INGERSON, THE NEW NOMINEE TO BE ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR EAST ASIAN AFFAIRS.

KISSINGER MADE NO STATEMENT ON HIS ARRIVAL AT TOKYO AIRPORT. AFTER SHAKING HANDS WITH OHIRA, HE WENT IMMEDIATELY WITH HIM TO AWAITING CARS AND DROVE TO HIS TOKYO HOTEL HEADQUARTERS.

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The _Yomiuri_, in its first editorial titled "State Secretary KISSINGER Coming to Japan," hoped that US Secretary of State KISSINGER, who is scheduled to arrive in Japan on the 14th, will reveal to the Japanese side his honest views on the current situation in the Middle East. The paper said that the Government should endeavor to secure the understanding of the visiting US State Secretary about Japan's position toward the dispute in the Middle East, pointing out that the present oil crisis may shake the foundations of the Japanese economy. The paper also hoped that the contents of the talks, which were held by State Secretary KISSINGER with Chinese Government leaders in Peking, will be known to the Japanese side as far as possible. In its second editorial titled "JCP Congress to Consolidate MIYAMOTO Line," the _Yomiuri_ said that the 12th Congress of the JCP, which is held at a time when the JCP is extending its influence remarkably, will produce the effect of consolidating the "MIYAMOTO Line." The paper pointed out, however, that Komeito, the DSP and the people at large are still distrustful of the JCP. The paper said that the JCP should carry on its activities more openly than heretofore.

as a theater for establishment of a national consensus of opinion on the policies for realization of a welfare society. The paper pointed out that no agreement has been reached to date on concrete measures for realization of a welfare society, because the private enterprises, employers and workers and local residents have been only insisting on their own interests.

The Asahi, in its first editorial titled "What Is Desired of UN Debates on Korean Problem," noted that the confrontation between North and South Korea at the UN has been even embittered, because both North and South Korea have lost their enthusiasm for dialogues between them. The paper argued that the spirit of the Joint Communique, which was issued by North and South Korea on July 4, last year, should be revived before the Korean problem is taken up for discussion at the current UNGA session. In its second editorial titled "How to Tackle New Energy Technics," the Asahi pointed out the essential importance of developing new energy technics to meet the shortage of energy supply. The paper urged the Government to distribute personnel and budgets on a priority basis for this purpose. The paper also stressed the necessity of co-operation among the Ministries

EDITORIALS: The Mainichi, in its first editorial titled "KISSINGER'S Visit to Japan and Middle East Diplomacy," said that the Government should not expect that it can find a clue to the solution of the present oil crisis by talks with US Secretary of State KISSINGER who is scheduled to arrive in Japan on the 14th. The paper said that the Government should bear in mind, above all, the fact that Japan is far more dependent on the supply of crude oil from the Arab nations than the US. The paper also noted that the Arab nations have stiffened their attitude toward Japan which maintains a somewhat pro-Israeli policy because of its consideration for the position of the US in the Middle East dispute. The paper argued that the Government should endeavor to secure the understanding of Arab nations about Japan's position.
In its second editorial titled "Problems for JCP Congress," the Mainichi said that the 12th JCP Congress, which is to be held for about a week from the 14th, has great significance, because it takes place at a time when the JCP is emerging as a nation-wide political party, with an appeal for establishment of a "democratic coalition Government." The paper also said, however, that the JCP will encounter considerable difficulties in its efforts for establishment of such a coalition Government, because the other Opposition Parties still harbor a strong feeling of distrust and suspicion toward the JCP. The paper hoped that the JCP Congress will clarify the JCP's prospects for a "revolution in Japan" and the character of the democratic coalition Government which the JCP is planning to establish in the future.

TOKYO SHIMBUN (Full)

November 14, 1973

Secretary of State KISSINGER to Come to Japan Today

The Government, in order to cope with the increasingly serious shortage of oil, following the Middle East dispute, intends to request an early settlement of the Middle East dispute strongly of US Secretary of State KISSINGER, who will come to Japan on the afternoon of the 14th. The US Secretary of State will come to Japan aboard a special plane from Peking some time past 1:00 p.m. that day. He will hold talks with Foreign Minister OHIRA from 3:30 p.m. On the 15th, he will hold talks separately with Prime Minister TANAKA, Finance Minister AICHI, and ITI Minister NAKASONE. Through these talks, the Government intends to ask Secretary KISSINGER about the prospects for a settlement of the Middle East dispute and, appealing on the serious actual situation of the shortage of oil in our country, following the Arab nations' restrictions on oil exports, will strongly press the United States to take effective means further for an early, total settlement of the dispute.

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November 12, 1973

## Background behind Low Yen Quotations

We cannot simply support the argument that the big deficit keynote of our country's international payments accounts has become stabilized. It is necessary above everything else to take measures to make the most of the effects of the float and to grab the direction for currency reform in advance.

Since the beginning of November, the high price of the dollar and the low price of the yen have been continuing on the Tokyo Foreign Exchange Market. In European markets, too, the dollar is continuing to rise in value. Since the beginning of this year, the balance in the international payments accounts of our country has shifted to a large-scale deficit.

NIHON KEIZAI (Full)

November 14, 1973

Secretary of State KISSINGER to Arrive in Japan Today

U.S. Secretary of State KISSINGER, who is now visiting China, will arrive in Japan by a special plane, which will land at Haneda at 1:20 p.m. on the 14th. In addition to having talks with Foreign Minister OHIRA from 3:30 p.m. on the same day, the said Secretary of State will also have talks with Prime Minister TANAKA (11:00 a.m.), Finance Minister AICHI (7:45 a.m.) and ITI Minister NAKASONE (1:30 p.m.) on the 15th. At this series of talks, it is considered that the main subject matter will be the Middle East peace question and the oil crisis problem. In advance of their talks with Secretary of State KISSINGER, Prime Minister TANAKA and Foreign Minister OHIRA will make preliminary arrangements on the 14th, on how they will conduct their talks with him.

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SANKEI (Full)

November 14, 1973

# US Secretary of State KISSINGER to Come to Japan Today

US Secretary of State KISSINGER will come to Japan aboard a special plane leaving Peking, some time past 1:00 p.m. on the 14th. He will immediately start talks with Foreign Minister OHIRA from 3:30 p.m. that day. According to a Foreign Ministry source, topics for the talks are expected to be narrowed down to three points -- the Middle East situation and the oil problem, the KISSINGER concept (new Atlantic Charter), and China policy.

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Atomic Energy Industrial Forum ARISAWA

New Chairman (Tokyo University Emeritus Professor) Hiromi ARISAWA of the Japan Atomic Energy Industrial Forum, which is trying to shift its physical constitution to a neutral, fair organ, prior to the Forum's first Standing Directors meeting held after his taking office to be held at Tokyo Kaikan Hall on the 12th, held a press conference and emphasized that "the only way for us to tide over the present energy crisis is to make atomic energy safe, for the time being."

In September last year, Chairman ARISAWA resigned from the Atomic Energy Commission he had been serving for 16 years. At the request of the Japan Atomic Energy Industrial Forum, which "wanted to stand on a national foundation," he became its new Chairman, an unusual appointment of a scientist.

The Sankei's lead story, carrying the caption "Stable Supply Requested to U.S. on Oil," took up the meeting yesterday between Foreign Minister OHIRA and Secretary of State KISSINGER. The headline story, which noted in its sub-caption that "Japan's Strained Situation Is Understood" and "All-out Efforts to Settle Middle East; Secretary KISSINGER," reported as follows:

U.S. Secretary of State KISSINGER, who arrived in Japan on the afternoon of the 14th, after mediating a Middle East peace and completing his visit to China, immediately held talks with Foreign Minister OHIRA at the Foreign Ministry for two hours and twenty minutes. At the meeting, Foreign Minister OHIRA explained the actual situation of our country, which has been placed in a difficult position due to the Arab side's "oil strategy," accompanying the Middle East conflict, and sought the co-operation of the U.S. side for the securing of a stable supply of oil by the majors (international oil capital). Toward this, Secretary of State KISSINGER showed understanding for Japan's position. The Foreign Minister also requested further U.S. efforts for the early settlement of the Middle East conflict, and expressed the intention that our country will also not take actions which may obstruct its early settlement,

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The talks were attended by Ambassador to the U.S. YASUKAWA, Foreign Affairs Councillor TOGO, and American Affairs Bureau Director General OKAWARA from the Japanese side, and by Ambassador to Japan INGERSOLL, Minister to Japan SHOESMITH and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State HAMEL [TN: phonetic] from the U.S. side.

Most of the talks were devoted to the Middle East question, and the Foreign Minister, first expressing respect for Secretary of State KISSINGER's efforts, leading up to the Middle East ceasefire this time, asked for his views regarding the present state and outlook for the Middle East conflict.

In response to this, Secretary of State KISSINGER explained that peace is moving forward steadily, and also said: "The U.S. is determined to make every possible effort for the settlement of the Middle East problem."

The Foreign Minister further explained in detail the difficult position in which our country is placed, such as the restrictions on oil supply to our country under the Arab side's "oil strategy," accompanying the Middle East conflict. In his explanations, the Foreign Minister especially emphasized the following points: (1) Our country relies on the Middle East for more than 70 percent of its oil imports, and the large part of this is supplied through the majors (international oil capital); and (2) It is our country which is receiving the most serious effects from the oil-producing countries' restrictions on supply, and its political and social effects are very big. The Foreign Minister requested of the U.S. side its co-operation in regard to the securing of the stable supply of oil through the majors. It is said that Secretary of State KISSINGER showed understanding toward Japan's position.

It seems that, through these talks, Secretary of State KISSINGER also explained in detail the actual state of the Middle East countries' restrictions on supply to the consumer-countries, and the direction of the easing of such restrictions, and it is said that it offered considerably suggestive information for the Japanese side.

The Japanese side also seems to have received the strong impression that, although a speedy favorable change in the oil supply situation cannot be expected, for such reasons as that it will take about six months for the Middle East to reach a complete ceasefire, "the situation will slowly head in a more favorable direction" (Foreign Ministry source).

Middle East policies, which had become a question in connection with oil, were also discussed, and it seems that the Foreign Minister expressed the intention that Japan will not take an attitude which would run contrary to a Middle East peace and an early settlement of the conflict.

The KISSINGER concept and the U.S.-China talks were also discussed at the talks, and Secretary of State KISSINGER explained in regard to this concept that (1) the U.S. Government has not abandoned its plan for formulating a general declaration linking together Japan, the U.S. and Europe, and

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that (2) it strongly desires the participation of Japan in the declaration, in some form or other. It was agreed that consultations will be continued in the future on the question of Japan's participation, between Secretary of State KISSINGER and Ambassador YASUKAWA.

There were also explanations by Secretary of State KISSINGER on the contents of the U.S.-China talks, at the meeting. However, the Foreign Minister said, after the talks, that "they were not explanations which indicated a basic change (in U.S.-China relations), and I received the impression of its being an extension of the hitherto-followed line."

On the 15th, Secretary of State KISSINGER will have talks separately with Prime Minister TANAKA, Finance Minister AICHI and ITI Minister NAKASONE. (Full translation)