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Asian Studies: Japan
Japan-U.S. Economic Relations Group
Records, 1979-1981
Source
National Archives (U.K.)
Period
1979-1981
Content
15,357 images
Product Number
16381514
Product Code
GDSC-271
OnMay 2, 1979, President JimmyCarter andPrimeMinisterMasayoshi Ohiramet inWashington,
D.C. and agreed to establish the Japan-U.S. Economic Relations Group—informally known
as the "Wise Men." This small group of distinguished persons drawn from private life would
submit recommendations to Carter and Ohira for maintaining a healthy bilateral economic
relationship between the United States and Japan. Among the issues considered were the
role of economic issues in the overall "political-security-cultural relationship," especially
Japan’s emerging position as aworld power; Japan’s future comprehensive economic security
needs; and its involvement in foreign assistance programs. The Group actively solicited the
views of the American public (Congress, business, labor, agriculture, public interest groups)
to provide an additional forum for those who wished to be heard. The Group also drew upon
research that was currently under way in the two countries and sponsored amodest program
of separate independent research.
Original Microform Title: Records of the Japan U.S. Economic Group
Japan: Records of the U.S. Department of
State, 1950-1959
Source
National Archives (U.S.)
Period
1950-1959
Content
11,858 images
Product Number
16330540
Product Code
GDSC-236
Commercial documents includePacific OceanFisheries Convention between theUnited States,
Canada, and Japan (1950); the duty of frozen tuna fish (1951); finding of “radioactive radiation in
the fisherman, fish and boat affected by the explosion of the hydrogen bomb at Bikini” (March
1954); records of Philippine tourists to Japan 1953-1956. Diplomatic correspondences include
those of U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and discussions of U.S.-Japanese policies
in the Pacific and East Asia (June 1957).
Original Microform Title: Records of the Department of State Relating to Political Relations between the
United States and Japan, 1950-1954; 1955-1959