Ex-PM Sato ordered backroom talks with U.S. over textiles
TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows then Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Sato (L) and then U.S. President Richard Nixon meeting in Washington in November 1969. They agreed to settle the dispute over Japan's textile exports to the United States by the end of that year but Sato failed to honor the agreement. Japanese diplomatic documents declassified on Feb. 18, 2011, shows Sato told a senior diplomat in 1970 to hold backroom negotiations with the United States to settle a long-standing bilateral textile trade dispute. (Kyodo)
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