Japanese Split on Exposing Secret Pacts With U.S. - NYTimes.com

• Japanese Split on Exposing Secret Pacts With U.S. - NYTimes.com

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  • By MARTIN FACKLER
  • TOKYO
  • They were Tokyo’s worst-kept diplomatic secrets: clandestine cold war era agreements with Washington that obligated Japan to shoulder the costs of United States bases and allow nuclear-armed American ships to sail into Japanese ports.
  
  • Bunroku Yoshino admitted lying about military treaties.
  • The new administration in Tokyo, whose election last summer ended a half-century of nearly unbroken control by the Liberal Democrats, wants to expose the treaties as a showcase of its determination to sweep aside the nation’s secretive, bureaucrat-dominated postwar order. Last fall, the foreign minister appointed a team of scholars to scour Japanese diplomatic archives for evidence of the treaties. Its findings are due this month.

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