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| | Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part II: 1977-1992 |
 | | Vice President Walter Mondale memorandum of conversation with Prime Minister Fukuda, February 1, 1977, memorializing the Carter administration's first official meeting with the Japanese premier, at which fractious issues such as U.S. plans to lower troop levels in South Korea, and relations with China and Taiwan were discussed. |
 | | This meeting, one of the first between the newly-elected Reagan administration and the Japanese government, reveals two issues that the U.S. would be pressing Japan to address: increased Japanese defense expenditures, and action to tackle the growing influx of Japanese automobiles in the U.S. Document 4. |
 | | While under former Prime Minister Nakasone Japan had been a strong backer of U.S. security objectives, the pace of desired change and reform in the economic and trade spheres had remained slow and unsteady. |
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