Okinawa Secret Agreement

Japanese: 沖縄密約 - おきなわみつやく
Okinawa Secret Agreement

...This issue began with the election pledges of the Republican presidential candidate Nixon in 1968, and began with the demand for strict self-restraint on Japan issued under the new Nixon administration in the spring of 1969. In response, Prime Minister Eisaku Sato made a "secret agreement (Okinawa secret agreement)" to settle the issue in line with the American demands in exchange for "return of Okinawa without nuclear weapons." This made it difficult to coordinate opinions within the Japanese government, and furthermore, the confusion and fragmentation of the negotiation route led to unnecessary misunderstandings between Japan and the United States. In March 1970, the United States presented a compromise proposal similar to the Kendall Plan, and in June, a direct meeting was held between Minister of International Trade and Industry Kiichi Miyazawa and Secretary of Commerce Stans. In October, Prime Minister Sato met with President Nixon for the second time and promised to settle the issue again, but the subsequent intergovernmental negotiations ended up hitting a deadlock. ...

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "Okinawa Secret Agreement" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…この問題は1968年のアメリカ共和党の大統領候補ニクソンの選挙公約に端を発し,69年春,ニクソン新政権下に出された日本に対する厳しい自主規制要求に始まる。それに対し,佐藤栄作首相が〈核抜き沖縄返還〉の交換条件として,アメリカ側の要求に沿った解決を〈密約(沖縄密約)〉,これが日本政府内の意見調整を困難にし,さらに交渉経路の混乱や分散が日米間に不必要な誤解をもたらすこととなる。70年3月にケンドール案のような妥協案がアメリカ側から出され,6月に宮沢喜一通産相とスタンズ商務長官の直接会談がもたれ,10月には佐藤首相がニクソン大統領と2度目の会談をして問題解決を再び約束するが,結局その後の政府間交渉は暗礁に乗り上げてしまった。…

※「沖縄密約」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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