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JFK-Ikeda Talks to Focus On Trade, Okinawa Problems
By Phil Newsom
UPI Foreign News Analyst
A friendly Japan is a keystone of United States foreign policy in Asia. And as the Communists press to extend their influence among Asias millions, the forthcoming visit of Japanese Premier Hayato Ikeda assumes great importance.
Ikeda and his advisers already are at work on the half dozen or more topics he hopes to take up with President Kennedy in Washington when he arrives in mid-June.
The Red China question is the most difficult because it deals both with politics and economics. Many Japanese businessmen look longingly at the Chinese mainland as a vast outlet for expanding Japanese industry, and therefore would like closer relations with Red China.
TOPPING the list is Red China. Other important subjects will include economic assistance to the under-developed Southeast Asian countries, relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea, Japanese defense, U.S.-Japan trade and continued United States occupation of Okinawa.
Working against them, however is Red China's lack of foreign exchange.
On the political side, Ikeda's Liberal-Democratic party is firmly in control and has linked its foreign policy with the United States. But, despite the huge majority rolled up by the Liberal-Democrats in last November's elections, there also was evidence that many of Japan's younger voters have been influenced by Socialism and by Red Chinese
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REGARDLESS of these pressures, Ikeda is expected to assure Washington that Japan will follow the United States lead in dealing with Peiping.
demands that Japan declare itself neutral.
On the question of Japanese aid to under-developed Southeast Asian countries, Ikeda will promise to step up that aid and probably will propose that it be financed through use of Japan's occupation debts to the United States.
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For security reasons, Korea is especially important to Japan, and the removal of former Korean President Syngman Rhee should make it easier for the two nations to reach agreement.
The Japanese premier also is expected to ask U.S. aid in early establishment of good relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea.
Against United States dissatisfaction with the slow tempo of the Japanese defense build-up, Ikeda will plead Japan's unique domestic situation. He will tell Kennedy that Japan will continue its effort to
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strengthen its 250.000-man defense force but also will ask continued U.S. military aid.
JAPAN'S gross national product increased by 16 per cent last year and its industrial production jumped 29 per cent. But despite its booning economy, Japan still spends only 1.4 per cent of the national income for defense, one of the lowest rates in the world.
Ikeda will thank Kennedy for his recent effort toward stopping an attempted boycott of Japanese textiles by U.S. textile workers, and he will stress that Japan's export to the United States is necessary to a stable political condition in Japan.
He will renew Japan's bid for an early return of Okinawa to Japan, but is not expected to press this demand on this key U.S. defensive base in the Pacific.
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