Word: asakai
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...Koichiro Asakai, Japan's former Ambassador to Washington, used to have what he called a "recurring nightmare." It was that he would "wake up one glorious morning to find that the U.S. had recognized Communist China, having given Japan no advance notification." Three weeks ago, when Richard Nixon told a startled world that he intended to visit Peking, the unexpected announcement proved a bad dream indeed for Japan's Eisaku Sato. Coming as it did without any prior consultation and so little advance notification as to be humiliating, it left the 70-year-old Premier hurt, resentful...
...Tokyo, conservative opposition mounted against the choice of brainy but blunt Edwin O. Reischauer, a Japanese-born Harvard professor with a Japanese wife. Japan's Ambassador to the U.S., Koichiro Asakai, summoned Japanese correspondents in Washington, asked them such leading questions as "Do you believe we should accept an ambassador who is not a full and true American?" Outgoing U.S. Ambassador Douglas Mac Arthur II also opposes Reischauer, who had charged that MacArthur's embassy was guilty of a "shocking misestimate of the situation" leading up to last spring's Japanese riots. After MacArthur invited...