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sulrject: Re!1ies to I-etters froh Japanese Polrrical Figures to President Nixon The Department believes that it would be alpropriate for the President to reply briefry to the letters from two monrbers of the Jalanese Diet, Bunsei Sato and Hajime Ishii, which weie fo alded with a lrhite House ,eferral of
Febttaty 24t 1972. sato and Ishii are frenbers of a risinq qroop younger of Japanese loliticiansr both are supporters of a continuing close us-Japan relationship and slrong adnirers of the President. Draft re!1ies
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