Word: ryukyus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government of Premier Eisaku Sato. Last week the U.S. approached the difficult decision. As Japan's Foreign Minister visited the White House to open formal talks on reversion, the Nixon Administration let it be known that it will soon move to return Okinawa and the other Ryukyus to Japanese control...
...might be. Two formidable rivals challenged him: 1) Eisaku Sato, 63, Minister of State under Ikeda and the obvious heir apparent, who attacked Ikeda's policy of "patience and tolerance," promised a dynamic regime that would fight for the return of the Kuril Islands from Russia and the Ryukyus (which include Okinawa) from the U.S.; and 2) Aiichiro Fujiyama, a silver-haired sugar baron who had served as former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi's Foreign Minister and as party coordinator under Ikeda...
...People's Party was the moderate, pro-U.S. Liberal-Democratic Party headed by scholarly Seisaku Ota, 56, current chief executive of the local government. The Liberal Democrats, too, plumped for reunification with Japan, but unlike their opponents, wanted it to come about gradually and without ruining the Ryukyus' prospering economy -which depends on the billion-dollar network of U.S. bases and the presence of some 60,000 dollar-spending servicemen, civilians and their families...