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INDEX: 
 
(1) Japan, China agree to improve relations, aiming at strategic 
reciprocity; "Deep concerns" voiced at summit talks over North 
Korea's N-test 
 
(2) Gist of Japan-China summit meeting 
 
(3) Japan, China, South Korea agree to pursue talks on investment 
agreement, with China shifting from cautious stance 
 
(4) First Lady makes debut for first time in five and half years 
 
(5) Diet exchange on historical views 
 
(6) Schwab coastal plan tops agenda: Kyuma 
 
(7) Major companies, including Toyota, to establish think-tank, 
planning to ask former Prime Minister Koizumi to become adviser 
 
(8) Seiron (Opinion) column by Susumu Nishibe: I look forward to 
in-depth debate on a nuclear Japan 
 
(9) James Zumwalt becomes director for Japanese affairs at US 
Department of State: Important for US and Japan to seek mutual 
benefits 
 
ARTICLES: 
 
(1) Japan, China agree to improve relations, aiming at strategic 
reciprocity; "Deep concerns" voiced at summit talks over North 
Korea's N-test 
 
ASAHI (Top play) (Excerpts) 
October 9, 2006 
 
BEIJING-Japanese Prime Minister Abe yesterday arrived in China on 
the first leg of his overseas tour and met with Chinese President Hu 
Jintao in the Great Hall of the People, soon after his talks with 
Premier Wen Jiabao and top legislator Wu Bangguo, chairman of the 
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. At the summit 
talks, Japan and China agreed to improve their bilateral relations. 
In addition, the two countries also agreed to build a "strategic 
reciprocal relationship" in order to share common strategic 
interests on North Korea, environmental, and energy issues. The two 
governments then issued a joint press release that summarized the 
summit talks. Hu and Wen called for Abe to resolve the history 
issue, including the problem of former Prime Minister Koizumi's 
visits to Yasukuni Shrine, which caused the two countries' relations 
to go from bad to worse. Abe underscored the postwar course of Japan 
as a pacifist nation and avoided clarifying whether he would visit 
Yasukuni Shrine or not. Japan and China voiced their "deep concerns" 
over North Korea's proclamation of its intention to conduct a 
nuclear test and confirmed their cooperation to denuclearize the 
Korean Peninsula. 
 
Commentary: 1st step to mutual trust 
 
Hideto Fujiwara, China Bureau chief 
 
Chinese President Hu Jintao spoke highly of Prime Minister Abe for 
choosing China as the destination of his first official overseas 
trip among his postwar predecessors, saying it well indicated Abe's 
 
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stance of attaching importance to the improvement and development of 
the two neighbors' relationship. Abe himself probably wanted to do 
so. His meetings with Hu and other Chinese leaders, including 
Premier Wen Jiabao, were not only held in an amicable atmosphere but 
also produced many fruits. 
 
What is noticeable above all is a new objective in terms of 
"building a strategic reciprocal relationship" declared in the joint 
press release, which is the first joint documentation since the 
Japan-China Joint Declaration of 1998. China has gone no further 
than a bilateral "friendly partnership" in its relations with Japan 
while underlining its "strategic relationship" with the United 
States and Russia to address global issues. One high-ranking 
official of the Chinese government even said China's strategic 
relations are only with nuclear powers. Japan has also avoided 
calling China a "strategic" partner in its bilateral relations with 
that country, which has a different political system and is not an 
ally of Japan. 
 
In China, however, a number of researchers have recently suggested 
the need for China to conclude "long-term, across-the-board" 
strategic relationship with Japan as well in order to ensure 
"reciprocal" interests in real terms. That is in part because of 
self-reflection on the extreme stagnation of political relations 
between the two countries. Last year, Japan and China started a vice 
foreign ministerial policy dialogue, which Beijing calls a 
"strategic dialogue." 
 
However, it is indispensable to build a relationship of mutual trust 
in order to build a "strategic reciprocal relationship." 
China-apparently burned badly by Prime Minister Koizumi's visits to 
Yasukuni Shrine-has voiced its readiness, both internally and 
externally, to hold summit talks with Japan if Japan's prime 
minister does not visit Yasukuni Shrine. However, Abe went no 
further than to say he would deal with the problem in an 
"appropriate" manner. 
 
The Chinese media referred to Abe's China visit as "breaking the 
ice" in expectation of improving Sino-Japanese relations. The ice 
began breaking, indeed. However, one Chinese official says the thick 
ice was not made due to one day's freeze. 
 
The two neighbors have just begun paving the way to a "strategic 
reciprocal relationship". 
 
(2) Gist of Japan-China summit meeting 
 
YOMIURI (Page 7) (Excerpts) 
October 10, 2006 
 
The following are main parts of the Japan-China summit meeting 
between Prime Minister Abe and Chinese President Hu Jintao. 
 
(Outset) 
 
President Hu: I met you in March 1997 when you visited China, but I 
welcome your first visit to China since you took office as prime 
minister. I think your choosing China as the first country to visit 
as prime minister fully indicates your stance of improving and 
developing China-Japan relations. I appreciate this in a highly 
forward-looking manner. This is the first visit by a Japanese prime 
minister to China in five years. I think this indicates that 
China-Japan relations have come to a turning point. I hope your 
 
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visit to China will become a new starting point for improvement and 
development of China-Japan relations. 
 
Prime Minister Abe: You remember my China visit a long time ago. I 
am impressed by your wonderful memory. I would like to offer 
congratulations on the 57th anniversary of the foundation of your 
country. I am grateful for your welcoming me and my entourage with 
scrupulous arrangements when you are occupied with the 6th Congress 
of the Chinese Communist Party, following National Day. 
 
I am the first Japanese prime minister who was born after the war. 
The choice of China as my first foreign visit as prime minister has 
greatly surprised domestic and foreign audiences. Japan and China 
are attaching importance to their bilateral relations. 
 
 
(View of wartime history) 
 
Prime Minister: Japan has followed a path in its postwar history of 
60 years based on the deep self-reflection that it caused massive 
damage and pain to Asian nations. I would like to seek due 
appreciation and understanding of the path Japan has followed in the 
postwar period as a pacifist nation. 
 
President: I give high praise to Japan in the hope of and in the 
belief of its continuing to follow the path for peaceful 
development. 
 
(Yasukuni issue) 
 
President: I would like you to make efforts to remove political 
obstacles to China-Japan relations. 
 
Prime minister: I visited Yasukuni Shrine in order to pray for 
lasting peace. I never meant to glorify militarism. Since this has 
developed into a diplomatic and political issue, I have decided not 
to comment on whether I visited it or not or whether I will visit it 
or not. I would like to properly deal with this issue from the 
perspective of overcoming political difficulties and promoting the 
sound development of both countries. 
 
Prime Minister: I would like to hold the first meeting between Japan 
and China for joint research on history before the year's end. 
 
President: I agree with you. 
 
(North Korea) 
 
Prime Minister: The Japanese government is dealing with the 
abduction issue with dialogue and pressure. North Korea has rejected 
the United Nation's Security Council resolution and is acting in an 
insincere manner, such as issuing a declaration that it will conduct 
a nuclear test. Japan is strengthening measures to deal with the 
abduction issue, including the appointments of state minister in 
charge of North Korean abductions of Japanese nationals and special 
advisor to the prime minister on the abduction issue or the 
establishment of an abduction issue headquarters led by the prime 
minister. China's cooperation is indispensable in resolving the 
issue. I would like you to work on the North more strongly so that 
it will refrain from carrying out a nuclear test. The best framework 
for settling the issue is the six-party talks. The North should 
immediately return to the framework. I would like to continue to 
closely cooperate with the host nation China. 
 
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President: I would like to pledge, on the part of the Chinese 
government, cooperation on the issue. 
 
Prime Minister: North Korea's declaration on nuclear testing is a 
threat not only to Japan but also to the international community. It 
is unacceptable. Such a test would further stiffen public opinion in 
Japan. I would like to praise the UNSC president's statement and 
thank you for your cooperation. 
 
President: I support the statement. China will strongly protest a 
North Korean nuclear test and express concern about it. We would 
like to discourage that nation from carrying out a nuclear test. 
 
(Defense cooperation) 
 
Prime Minister: Cooperation between defense officials of our two 
countries is not sufficient. I would like to propose establishing a 
mechanism to promote such. 
 
President: I will look into such a possibility. I would like to 
consider such a proposal in a forward-looking manner. 
 
(UN Reform) 
 
Prime Minister: I would like China to support Japan's entry into the 
UNSC as a permanent member. 
 
President: We will expand dialogue on reform of the UN, including 
the UNSC. 
 
(Summit) 
 
Prime Minister: I would like to establish a strategic reciprocal 
relationship with China. I would like President Hu and Premier Wen 
Jiabao to visit Japan at an early date. I would like to hold a 
summit on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 
(APEC) forum meeting in November and an East Asia summit in 
December. 
 
President: I agree with you. If we can obtain approval from South 
Korea, we also like to hold a Japan-China-South Korea summit. 
 
(Taiwan issue) 
 
President: The Taiwan issue is very important. 
 
Prime Minister: Japan's position is consistent. There will be no 
change in it under my administration as well. 
 
(3) Japan, China, South Korea agree to pursue talks on investment 
agreement, with China shifting from cautious stance 
 
NIHON KEIZAI (Page 3) (Full) 
October 9, 2006 
 
Beijing, Tadanori Yoshida 
 
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao during 
their talks agreed to pursue cooperation to sign an investment 
agreement among Japan, China, and South Korea. The objective of the 
investment agreement is to ban China from discriminating against or 
setting undue regulations on foreign companies that have made 
 
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inroads into it. China has veered from its previous cautious stance 
toward such a request made by Japanese business circles. The issue 
will be made a common agenda item at the APEC forum meeting in 
November. The three countries will aim at formally reaching an 
agreement once such talks have kicked off. 
 
During the summit, Abe worked on Premier Wen, noting, "We would like 
to sign an investment agreement among Japan, China, and South 
Korea." Wen responded, "I would like to pursue that idea." 
 
Japan, China, and South Korea at a summit meeting in Laos in 
November 2004 agreed to upgrade the investment agreement talks, 
which they had up until then pursued at the private-sector level, to 
the government level. Later, the talks lost momentum, with China 
shifting toward a cautious stance. Japan Business Federation 
Chairman (Nippon Keidanren) Fujio Mitarai visited Beijing last 
month. He asked the Chinese side to make efforts to realize the 
agreement at an early date so as to consolidate an investment 
environment. 
 
Japan and South Korea will likely seek to have the proposed 
agreement incorporate a clause guaranteeing that foreign companies 
in China will be able to operate under the same conditions as those 
imposed on domestic companies. It is said that there are cases in 
China where the composition of capital subscription in foreign 
companies is restricted or they are required to meet the China-set 
ratios of the procurement of materials and exports as conditions for 
obtaining a permit for business operations. The aim of the agreement 
is to prevent China from discriminating against Japanese and South 
Korea companies operating in that nation. 
 
Some have noted that the Chinese government suddenly changes 
regulations imposed on foreign companies operating in China. Japan 
wants to have a regulation that ensures transparency in 
administrative procedures incorporated in the agreement. The three 
countries will also consider the possibility of strengthening the 
protection of intellectual property rights. 
 
Japan and China have already signed a bilateral investment 
protection agreement. However, this agreement simply stipulates 
basic matters to be observed, such as that investors' assets should 
not be seized and that cash remittances by companies should not be 
obstructed. 
 
Regarding some aspects, whether discussion will go smoothly is 
uncertain, but the Japanese government is of the opinion that, "If 
the drafting of an investment agreement among the three countries 
progresses, it will greatly benefit Japanese companies," as an 
official of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry put it. 
 
(4) First Lady makes debut for first time in five and half years 
 
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 2) (Full) 
October 9, 2006 
 
Yuji Hiraiwa, Beijing 
 
Akie Abe, 44, the wife of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is now 
accompanying her husband on his China trip, visited a school and an 
association to help the handicapped in Beijing. Her debut as First 
Lady was the first time for Japan in five years and six months 
because former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi is single. 
 
 
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Akie visited Yuetan Junior High School (integrated junior and senior 
high school), where the Japanese language is taught. She there met 
students who had home-stayed in Japan. She told the class her true 
feelings: 
 
"My husband is now meeting with President Hu Jintao. The top leaders 
present their countries' views and sometimes there are debated. 
Since we are not politicians, let us just grasp each other's hands 
and look positively toward the future." 
 
At the Chinese association of the handicapped, the First Lady 
actively exchanged views with the eldest son of the late President 
Teng Xiaoping on employment policy measures for the handicapped. 
Asked by a Chinese reporter, "I've heard that you like Korean TV 
drama, how about Chinese drama?" She responded with a smile, " I 
will start to learn about the Chinese culture, too, now." 
 
(5) Diet exchange on historical views 
 
ASAHI (Page 4) (Full) 
October 6, 2006 
 
The following are the major exchanges between Prime Minister Abe and 
Minshuto (Democratic Party of Japan) Acting Representative Naoto Kan 
on historical views. 
 
(Kono Statement) 
 
Kan: Will you honor the statement (on the comfort-women issue) made 
by then Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono? 
 
Abe: The statement referred to the government's involvement in 
recruiting the so-called comfort women. The current administration 
continues to support it. 
 
Kan: Does the prime minister support it? 
 
Abe: Since I am prime minister, the government, including me, 
supports it. 
 
Kan: In a Diet question-and-answer session in May 1997, you said, 
"The premise of the statement has considerably collapsed." 
 
Abe: I said there are various doubts over the question of whether 
the women were forced to provide services in a narrow sense. But 
even if some were not directly forced to provide such services, in 
the broad sense, it is true that one could argue such conditions 
were forced on them. 
 
(Murayama Statement) 
 
Kan: What do you, Prime Minister Abe, think about the contents of 
the Murayama statement (apologizing for Japan's wartime acts)? 
 
Abe: I do not have any thought in mind about drafting a new 
statement and reissuing it. My cabinet, too, will keep alive the 
document that was adopted by (the Murayama) cabinet. 
 
Kan: What do you mean by "I"? 
 
Abe: Naturally, I mean myself as prime minister. 
 
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and suffered from the aggression, and it is clearly stated that our 
country's policies were wrong. As an individual, what do you think? 
 
Abe: There was a statement adopted by the cabinet and issued that 
took (the view) that aggression was carried out against the South 
Koreans and the Chinese and others. I think that it was just as the 
central government pointed out. 
 
(Responsibility of war leaders) 
 
Kan: Do you take the view that your grandfather's signing a 
declaration of war against the United States was wrong? 
 
Abe: Japan lost that war, and many scars were left for the Asian 
peoples. The people who were in leadership positions at the time, 
including my grandfather, were greatly responsible for this. 
 
Kan: Is it my understanding that your view is that it was wrong for 
those leaders to have signed a declaration of war, looking at it 
today? 
 
Abe: Since politics is responsible for the results, it is only 
natural that the decisions made at the time were wrong. There are 
various ways to assume responsibility. That is why (my grandfather) 
tackled the revision of the US-Japan Security Treaty at the risk of 
his life. 
 
(6) Schwab coastal plan tops agenda: Kyuma 
 
MAINICHI (Page 5) (Full) 
October 4, 2006 
 
-- What do you think about the idea of making a permanent law 
stipulating requirements for the Self-Defense Forces to engage in 
international peace cooperation activities? 
 
Defense Agency Director General Fumio Kyuma: I hope we can make that 
law. However, we've yet to have such a law. When Japan actually 
sends SDF members overseas, the government would have to ask for 
Diet approval. Another problem is what to do about interactions with 
United Nations resolutions. In the past, we needed to create the Law 
for Cooperation on United Nations Peacekeeping Operations and the 
Iraq Special Measures Law. I wonder if we can easily unify these 
laws into one. I think it would be better to tackle this matter 
through a national debate. 
 
-- There's an argument about whether Japan should have the 
capability of striking enemy bases. 
 
Kyuma: So far, Japan has taken the position that it will play the 
role of a 'shield' but expects the United States to play the role of 
a 'spear' under the Japan-US Security Treaty. It's all right to 
debate, but it's not time for the government to set forth a policy 
course of acquiring the capability of striking enemy bases. We 
should show consideration so that we will not cause them to become 
unnecessarily cautious. 
 
-- Japan and the United States agreed in their talks over the 
realignment of US forces in Japan to relocate the heliport functions 
of Futenma airfield in Okinawa Prefecture to a coastal area of Camp 
Schwab. How do you evaluate this Camp Schwab coastal plan? 
 
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the plan. 
 
-- It seems that Okinawa's local communities are still strongly 
crying out against that relocation plan. 
 
Kyuma: We need their understanding. The US military's deterrent 
capability gives a sense of security to us all. But then, there are 
too many US military bases on Okinawa. So we want to reduce their 
footprints. We will relocate Futenma airfield to Camp Schwab and 
will also move Marines to Guam. I want people in Okinawa to 
recognize this to be a further step forward. This is good for both 
Okinawa and Japan, so it's a matter of top priority. 
 
-- How long are you thinking of continuing the Air Self-Defense 
Force's airlift support in Iraq? 
 
Kyuma: There's a (legal) time limit, so I cannot say we will 
continue it as long as we like. If we modify the masterplan (in 
December), then we can go on. We will renew the plan if we need to. 
I think there are still needs for airlift services for a while. 
 
(7) Major companies, including Toyota, to establish think-tank, 
planning to ask former Prime Minister Koizumi to become adviser 
 
YOMIURI (Page 2) (Full) 
October 9, 2006 
 
Leading companies, including Toyota Motor Co. and Canon Inc., plan 
to set up a think-tank that would cover international politics, 
security affairs, and economic issue, it was learned on Oct. 8. The 
sponsors are now working on former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi 
to serve as an advisor to the think-tank. They will announce the 
plan next week. 
 
The major companies, believing that policy-making should not be 
entirely entrusted to bureaucrats, plan to have the think-tank 
present policy proposals to the government. The think-tank 
reportedly will be modeled after Brookings Institution, which is 
involved in the policy-making of the US government. The major firms 
want Koizumi to utilize his personal connections with foreign 
leaders to help its policy-making and dispatch of information t_JecE< will likely finance 
over 10 million yen each. Naoki Tanaka will head the institute. 
Tanaka currently heads the 21st Century Public Policy Institute. The 
think-tank's head office will be set up in Nihonbashi Mitsui Tower, 
in Chuo Ward, Tokyo. 
 
(8) Seiron (Opinion) column by Susumu Nishibe: I look forward to 
in-depth debate on a nuclear Japan 
 
SANKEI (Page 11) (Full) 
October 7, 2006 
 
By Susumu Nishibe, critic and president of Shumei University 
 
There is a limit to America's "nuclear umbrella" 
 
The Institute for International Policy Studies (IIPS) led by former 
Prime Minister Nakasone came up with this suggestion recently: "In 
preparation for a future dramatic shift in the international 
 
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community, a nuclear option should be discussed." This was perhaps 
the first, somewhat positive suggestion made by an organization 
having links to the administration about the question of whether 
Japan should go nuclear. I laud the suggestion that came surely on 
the strength of Nakasone, a highly decorated statesman who is 
influential even now in the political world. 
 
I read IIPS's suggestions. In the report, "independent defense 
strategy" and "a tolerance of the exercise of the right to 
collective self-defense" are advocated. But the report also follows 
the existing defense policy pillared by firmly upholding the 
position of a nonnuclear power, strengthening the nuclear 
proliferation treaty (NPT), and solidifying the Japan-US alliance. 
 
Regrettably, I must say this level of perception and attitude fail 
to touch the heart of the nuclear issue, as well as the essence of 
self-reliant defense. The important thing is to assess the story we 
have been told until now that "Japan has been under America's 
'nuclear umbrella'" as almost a fallacy. If intercontinental or 
submarine-launched ballistic missiles were to be fired, the US 
mainland itself would be exposed to nuclear attacks. It is unlikely 
that the US would overcome its fear and conduct a retaliatory 
nuclear attack against (a common enemy for Japan and the US) for the 
sake of Japan. 
 
In addition to the nuclear umbrella, even the "intercept missiles" 
(IM) the US is selling to Japan have a poor performance, according 
to experts in the know. If that is true, as long as Japan remains 
nonnuclear, it will be unable to acquire any powerful capability to 
deter war (including a nuclear deterrent). That's why Japan tends to 
end up being wimpy when it comes to its posture of independence 
defense. 
 
Two nonnuclear principles are only ruinous to the country 
 
The US, which knew all thislong ago, foresees: "Japan has no way but 
to become America's protectorate, and the Self-Defense Forces are 
merely the US Far East forces' tool." In fact, this sort of view was 
once professed by Zbigniew Brzezinski, a leading international 
political scientist. Most Japanese accept that notion and advocate 
that "the Japan-US alliance should be strengthened for security and 
survival," even though Japan as "a state" may lose "self-respect and 
independence." 
 
In view of the nuclear issue, however, if our nuclear-free 
archipelago does not turn into America's territory (or one of its 
states but without voting rights), the archipelago's safety and 
survival remain in jeopardy. The US -- I am talking about the 
government and not academic circles -- is well aware of that and has 
been opposed to Japan going nuclear. The NPT was established in this 
context. 
 
A nonnuclear country regards an alliance as its last resort, but 
such thinking is a way for that country to end up a vassal of that 
other state. I can say postwar Japan has been ruled by the "two 
nonnuclear principles," namely that Japan allows the US to 
"introduce" nuclear weapons into the archipelago for America's 
interests, but Japan does not "produce or possess nuclear weapons" 
for the sake of Japan's interests. I wonder why this sort of 
dangerous defense argument has been accepted here in Japan. 
 
The reason is deeply concerned with Japan's trauma stemming from its 
defeat in the war with the US (but existing on a subconscious 
 
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level). Because of such views of the world stemming from the fear of 
the US as: "Only the US can defend itself independently"; and, "The 
world is moving in  a unipolar direction led by the US," Japan has 
already been reduced to being a subject state of the US. 
 
Japan needs to break away from its lost war trauma 
 
Independent defense does not mean single-handed defense. States that 
lose confidence and are worried they would not have either allies or 
friendly nations on equal terms always cling to the strongest 
military power in the belief that it is impossible to defend 
themselves on their own. With an independent defense, an independent 
country can put together single-handed defense system (in 
preparation for a worst-case situation) at the heart of its defense 
network. In order to reinforce that defense network, military 
treaties and pacts can be concluded with allies and friendly 
nations. In addition, when it compromises with a potential enemy, it 
gives priority to its own decision (over another country's order). 
 
Those people suffering from a we-lost-the-war trauma throw away 
traditions (or traditional common sense). But doing so is equivalent 
to throwing away the basis of the national spirit, and the people's 
independent judgment only goes down accordingly. As a result, the 
people suffer not only from a nuclear allergy but also a 
hypersensitivity to "combat power and armed conflicts," even for 
self-defense (as stated in the current Constitution). Moreover, even 
a hypersensitivity to the term "nation state" (the people and their 
government as a state) is spreading without making no distinction 
between the nation and the state. 
 
When we think about an idea of independent defense, an argument for 
nuclear armament is indispensable. In a multipolar world, nuclear 
power is necessary as macht for the "balance of fear," and it also 
affects the formation, interpretation, and operation of 
international recht. But what must be done before the Japanese reach 
this simple truth is to resolve what is called the "America problem" 
concerned with Japan's postwar mentality, especially, the skewed 
images of human beings and the world. 
 
(9) James Zumwalt becomes director for Japanese affairs at US 
Department of State: Important for US and Japan to seek mutual 
benefits 
 
TOKYO SHIMBUN (Page 3) (Full) 
October 8, 2006 
 
When James Zumwalt was a high school student, he wanted to study in 
Germany. He was, however, sent to Japan. He lived with a Japanese 
family in Yokohama without knowing anything about Japan. 
Thirty-three years later, he assumed the post in charge of drafting 
US policy toward Japan. "When I think back, I was really lucky," he 
said. 
 
Zumwalt served at the US Embassy in Tokyo until July this year. He 
lived in Japan, including Kobe and Akita, a total of 14 years and 
visited all 47 prefectures. 
 
Although he thought communication in Japanese was difficult, he has 
now little difficulty communicating in Japanese, "Thank to Japanese 
people who watched and encouraged me patiently," said Zumwalt. 
 
He described the present Japan-US relations as "excellent." He 
assumes a great responsibility to rebuild, improve, and strengthen 
 
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the good bilateral ties along with the new Japanese government. 
 
He said: 
 
"When I entered the Department of State, there were many issues to 
be resolved between the United States and Japan. The two countries, 
overcame the situation, however, are now cooperating in dealing with 
multinational issues." 
 
He has stressed that it is important for the two countries to seek 
win-win outcomes. 
 
His wife also works at the State Department. They got to know each 
other during their first assignment in Japan. "There is a Japanese 
expression shanai kekkon (office wedding), but what do you say when 
it's shonai (within the same government department)?" 
 
He and his wife enjoyed hot springs in Japan. He was born in 
California. He is 50 years old. 
 
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