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1950 The government of the People's Republic of China recognized Ho Chi Minh's Socialist Republic of Vietnam based in Hanoi as sole government of Vietnam.
1952 Pope Pius XII issued an ecncyclical letter to Catholics in China telling them to render to God that which is his due, also denied that foreign Catholic missionaries in China were spies. Click here to visit a collection of resources on Christianity in China. Amnesty International has prepared an extensive report on continuing religious repression in China. The St. Columban Mission Society notes that in 1948, Roman Catholic officials in China reported that there were 3,258,536 Catholics in China.
1960 US and Japan signed a Mutual Security and Cooperation Treaty. Kishi Nobusuke, Japanese prime minister (1957-60), and U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter signed the treaty in Washington, D.C. Notes which accompany the treaty exclude the Ryuku and Bonin Islands from the agreement.
1967 Troops dispatched to exercise control over granaries and other important installations in China.
1968 First visit to Japan by an American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier (Enterprise).
1968 Cambodia charges that the U.S. and South Vietnam have crossed the border and killed three Cambodians.
1969 Riot police evicted leftist students from Tokyo University buildings.
1971 Officials report that the U.S. is flying helicopter missions for Laos troops.
1974 PRC and S. Vietnamese forces fought on Xisha Islands.
1977 President Gerald R. Ford, as one of his last acts in office, pardoned Iva Toguri D'Aquino. D'Aquino, an American citizen from Los Angeles, was in Japan when war broke out and worked for the Japanese broadcasting agency. Her broadcast name was "Orphan Ann," but she was labelled "Tokyo Rose" by the American press and in 1949 she was convicted of treason. She spent six years in prison. Materials concerning the pardon are collected at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library. EarthStation1 has pictures of Ms. D'Aquino and downloadable sound files of her broadcasts during World War II. The site also offers video from the Sixty Minutes segment which helped focus attention on the unfair treatment meted out to Ms. D'Aquino.
1987 The U.S. dollar sank to 150 Japanese yen.
1998 In Japan, an independent agency (Teikoku Databank) reported that corporate bankruptcies reached an all-time high in 1997. The liabilities of the 16,365 bankrupt corporations totaled ¥14 trillion. Corporate bankruptcies were up more than 12% since 1996.
Voices from Asian History
The U.S. Office of War Information, August 1945"There is no 'Tokyo Rose'; the name is strictly a GI invention. The name has been applied to at least two lilting Japanese voices on the Japanese radio. ... Government monitors listening in 24 hours a day have never heard the words 'Tokyo Rose' over a Japanese-controlled Far Eastern radio."
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