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Article: Japan: Chapter 6B. Relations with the United States
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Chapter 6B. Relations with the United States
United States-Japanese relations in 1981 remained basically close
and
cooperative despite a series of incidents that in past years would
have
created severe strains but which were rationalized without serious
consequences. These incidents included the sinking of a Japanese freighter
and
the loss of two seamen in a collision with a United States nuclear-
powered
submarine; a political uproar over a reference to "an alliance" between
the
United States and Japan in an official communique; and a flare-up
of Japan's
"nuclear allergy," following the public assertion by a former United
States
ambassador to ...