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Focuses on race relations on Okinawa, Japan, which is the site of several United States military bases, in light of rape allegations against a U.S. airman. Details of the case of Air Force staff sergeant Timothy Woodland; Effect of the case on U.S. and Japan relations; American influence on the culture of the archipelago's 60 tropical islands called Okinawa; Mention of a 'kokujo' subculture fetishizing blacks; Topics of racism and sexism.

The article focuses on the administration of Japan's Prime Minister Eisaku Sato. It notes that joining the Asian Regional groupings has been noted as one of Sato's farsighted moves which will involve the country with its neighboring nations. Moreover, Sato also reoriented the relations with Russia and the U.S. in his efforts to free Japan from the legacy of inaction. It adds that the country's stability looks more promising than ever, having inherited the best of China.

The article reports on the protests of Japanese against the move of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi the revision of the U.S.-Japan Treaty. It states that demonstrators fought against police and tried to prevent Kishi to meet with U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower. It indicates that the opponents protest that the treaty revision implies commitment of Japan to support all U.S. moves in the Pacific.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "The Red Threat" in the June 14, 1976 issue, one on the comparison of Yuba City, California with other U.S. cities in the June 7, 1976 issue, and "Message to America" in the June 14, 1976 issue.

The article discusses the first visit of Japan's Emperor Hirohito to the U.S. after Americans considered him as the despised symbol of his country during World War II. He met U.S. President Gerald Ford at the White House and was welcomed by a remarkably crowd of 2,000 spectators. He thanked U.S. for its support during a state dinner which was held in his honor. He even considered his visit not just a chore of state but an opportunity to gratify his passion which is the study of marine life.

The article focuses on U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and his responsibility as president, commander in chief and politician. It features the discussion during a meeting with Japan's Premier Kakuei Tanaka which carried domestic political overtones for Nixon. It notes that Tanaka and Nixon preludes a better relation toward Peking which develop and strengthen U.S.-Japanese ties. Furthermore, Nixon as military commander, made an announcement which freighted with political impact.

The article discusses the economic and political conditions in Japan in relation to a trade war involving the U.S. and Chinese governments in 2018, and it mentions geopolitics and Japan's exports to America and China. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is addressed, along with support for American President Donald Trump among the Japanese population. Chinese President Xi Jinping and World Trade Organization reforms are assessed.

The article discusses the U.S. government and its potential role in a global system of commerce and collaboration as of March 2014, focusing on a push for America to sign onto the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement with several Asian countries such as China and Japan. Free trade and foreign competition are assessed. It states that the U.S. government has an economic reason for supporting the TPP and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with several European nations.

The article profiles Yukio Hatoyama, the prime minister of Japan. The article notes that Hatoyama, whose Democratic Party of Japan won a landslide election in 2009, seeks to change the Japanese economy and government, but the central focus of the article is the state of Japanese-U.S. relations. Among a number of issues the article examines Hatoyama's efforts to renegotiate an agreement that allows for the deployment of U.S. troops on the Japanese island of Okinawa. Hatoyama's family background is discussed.

Reports that the rape of a 12 year-old Okinawan girl by three United States servicemen has been the biggest shock to the United States-Japan security alliance in years. The call by major Japanese newspapers for a revision of the agreement governing the presence of United States forces in Japan; Governor Masahide Ota's, flight to Tokyo to lodge a complaint; How a dispute over how to apply Japanese law turned the crime into an international incident.

The article reports on the struggle of the U.S. administration to convince Japan to open its domestic market to more foreign imports. It states that the U.S. government has continued to persuade Japan to open up its market to foreigners if it intends to avoid equal protectionism in the U.S. Trade Representative David MacDonald notes that the emerging economic crisis in the U.S. has resulted from the closed Japanese market itself. Other complaints against Japan from Western Europe are also cited.

The article discusses the international relations between Japan and the U.S. despite the tension over international trade. In December 1978, Prime Minister Masayoshi Ohira held a state visit to Washington D.C. to resolve the tension with U.S. President James Earl Carter to narrow the trade gap between the two nations in which Japan's trade surplus in the first three months of 1979 reached to 2.7 billion dollars. Thus, Japanese political leaders are urging to defuse the trade issue before the commencement of the economic summit meeting of the heads of the major industrial nations on June 28 in Tokyo.

The article discusses the plans of the U.S. government to help the steel industry. It states that by a matter of months, imported steel, majority of which originated in Japan, has taken over a fifth of the domestic market. In an effort to revitalize the U.S. steel industry, the government strengthened sanctions against dumping and announced details of its new trigger price mechanism plan. It states that imported steel with prices below a predetermined level would fall immediately by under the Treasury Departments investigation. Furthermore, it also talks about issues regarding the trigger price system and the U.S. governments' consultation with the Japanese government about Japan's steel imports in the U.S.

The article offers information on Japan's response to the anger of U.S. and Europe on its excessive cheap exports in world markets. Japan's Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda fires all except one of the 22 Cabinet ministers of the country to boost domestic economy, and encourage businesses to sell domestically rather than abroad. It adds that as U.S. and Europe blocks Japanese goods to their market, Fukuda appointed former Ambassador to Washington Nobuhiko Ushiba as the Minister of External Economic Affairs and will consider tariff cuts to its product. However, such efforts does not guarantee to ease Japan's stringent relation with U.S., unless they would take efforts to increase the value of its yen currency.

The article reports on the move of U.S. President Jimmy Carter to enforce the international trade laws on steel industry. It notes that the pledge came after the offer of European and Japanese steelmakers to restrict exports to the U.S. It states that in August 1977, the rising imports of cheaper steel from Japan and Europe captured almost 20 percent of the American market which causes the layoffs of some 60,000 American workers, hitting steel company profits and a forced closure of old mills in several cities. It also states that steel men are complaining on the foreign metal that is being dumped or sold in the U.S. below the production cost where the act was recognized as a violation on international trade law.

The article reports on the strategic efforts of U.S. President Jimmy Carter to solve trade barriers. It mentions the use of protectionism during recession for the prevention of threats in foreign goods which affects the economy in the West and Japan. It cites the agreement of the Japanese to have a cutback in the export of colored television (TV) sets to the U.S. which raises the rate of TV sets to 38 percent. It states that the Tokyo Round of international trade talk was considered a battle for Carter due to the undercut of free-trade principles supported by the U.S.

Recounts President Bill Clinton's first US-Japanese summit at which Clinton insisted `there are differences still between the Prime Minister (Kiichi Miyazawa) and me.' Miyazawa suggested that a piece of his country's $116 billion stimulus package would end up paying for American-made goods, but stood firm against managed trade. The two leaders agreed to come up with a detailed plan to reduce America's trade deficit with Japan within three months.

Questions if, fifty years after the outbreak of the Pacific war, the United States and Japan are on a critical new collision course, as Americans increasingly see Japan as insensitive and arrogant. Japanese officials, abetted by political and business conservatives, have subtly but systematically diluted the facts about Japanese aggression from 1931 to 1945. Asian neighbors demand Japan deal more forthrightly with its past; The need to air the topic.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in the previous issues including one on musician Bruce Springsteen in the October 27, 1975, one which discusses the second chance given by the U.S. government to Japan in the October 27, 1975 issue, and one on abortion clinics in the November 3, 1975 issue.

The article narrates how the U.S. Congress hailed Secretary of State Dean Acheson for his role as presiding officer in the signing of the Japanese Peace Treaty in September 1951. It says that even his harshest critics like William Knowland of California and Ohio's Robert Taft commended him for a job well done. Happiest was U.S. President Harry Truman whom the article claimed as someone who had no extensive experience in foreign affairs and whose administration has been charged for its failure to draw up an effective foreign policy.

The article focuses on Japan as an occupied country, its opposition to Communism and its relationship with the U.S. In January 1951, U.S. President Harry Truman appointed United Nations (U.N.) Delegate John Foster Dulles as head of a mission to conduct such further discussions and negotiations as may be necessary to bring a Japanese settlement to an eventual successful conclusion. In terms of rearmament, Bank of Japan governor Hisato Ichimada says that it is a question forced upon Japan by the international situation.

The article reports on the foreign economic relation between Japan and the U.S. It discusses the growth of Japanese economy in different sectors. It describes some problems with Japanese exports which prompted the country to convene with the U.S. leaders. At the meeting, the U.S. leaders called on their Japanese counterparts to start removing import quotas on 120 products and start setting up joint ventures.

The article focuses on the strained economic relations between U.S. and Japan. It highlights the dispute of the two industrial powers concerning trade policies. It notes that the expanding argument of the two countries focuses on the protectionist policies of both countries, aggravated by U.S. quotas on textile imports.

The article reports on the plan to close some American bases in Japan to minimize Japanese radicals. It indicates that there are 148 U.S. military holdings in the country which sometimes cause conflicts with civilian population. Moreover, it mentions the inability of the U.S. to give any substantial military potential in Japan.

The article offers information on the possible impact of the treaty between the U.S. and Japan. It states that the treaty to be signed between the two countries will signify the return of the U.S. to the Japanese, the Bonin and Volcanic Islands. It notes that U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson has agreed to give back the islands to Japan as an omiyage to Japan's visiting Premier Eisaku Sato.

The article reports on the military defense forces in Japan. It mentions that the country's defense forces have grown quietly but quickly into a compact and highly competent organization known as the Self Defense Forces with the aid of the Americans. It notes that Self Defense Forces Director Raizo Matsuno has passed a bill to upgrade Japanese defense spending that would greatly increase both the material and the mobility of the armed forces.

The article focuses on Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi, who had a tour in the Southeast Asian countries. It states that Kishi was the first postwar premier from Japan whose record in politics does not allow his opposers from charging him of being a U.S. puppet. It says that Kishi was not threatened by Japanese left-wing political attacks against the bases of the U.S. in Okinawa, Japan. Meanwhile, Kishi's Southeast Asian tour was viewed to be planned as a prelude for his visit in the U.S.

The article provides a historical account of the plight of Japanese-Americans during World War II when they were evacuated to relocation camps as authorized by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt in his Executive Order 9066. It states that no major protests occurred from Japanese-Americans pertaining to Roosevelt's order and held to their view of shikatagonai, which means realistic resignation. It adds that they even provided military manpower in Europe and in the Pacific area during the war.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues which include the U.S. presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy, the Garden Tomb in Jerusalem, and the relations between the U.S. and Japan.

The article reports on the new treaty signed between Japan's Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower. It states that the new treaty was hailed as taking into account the independent status of Japan where Japanese people felt bitterness and fear that the revised treaty would create a war against the U.S. It mentions the press criticism against Prime Minister Kishi, noting the post-war manifestations and the role of the press in times of war and disputes.