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1985 Jun 7 - 1986 Dec 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1820
Japan (Anglo-Japanese relations) (Part 5)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 264
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85 Jun 10 Mon Japan: No.10 briefing for MT ("E(A) Discussion: commercial policy towards Japan") [UK position on EC review] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jun 27 Thu Japan: No.10 letter to Cabinet Office (Japanese Embassy request for information about No.10 Downing Street layout) [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Jul 30 Tue Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Japanese action programme on Market opening: Embassy comment") ["...more useful and positive... than... expected..."] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Aug 19 Mon Japan: Japanese Embassy letter to MT (JAL passenger air crash) [acknowledgement from PM Nakasone of MT condolences] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Aug 19 Mon Japan: Treasury record of conversation (trade and economic issues) [Geoffrey Littler, Japanese Ambassador: Western concerns about capital inflow/outflow imbalance] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Aug 27 Tue Japan: MT letter to Managing Director of Nissan (Invitation to open manufacturing plant in Sunderland) [accepts] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 4 Wed Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone (Airbus A300-600 aircraft) [possible All Nippon Airways contract] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 9 Mon Japan: No.10 letter to Treasury ("The Yen") [addressing the imbalance in Japan's world economic role] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 20 Fri Japan: No.10 letter to Managing Director of Nissan UK (Sunderland plant opening ceremony) [MT to open, after threat of trade union agitation comes to nothing] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Sep 26 Thu Japan: Prime Minister Nakasone letter to MT (Prince Hiro) [courtesy letter in regard to his time at Oxford University] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 4 Fri Japan: Inland Revenue minute to John Moore ("Visit to Japan, Hong Kong and Mauritius") ["...pleasant statements about the ICL arrangement as an important example of technological collaboration between Japan and the UK but there is no question that Japanese interests come first."] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 10 Thu Japan: Cabinet Office minute to No.10 (British Museum: Japanese Gallery proposal) [MT rejects suggestion that she write "begging" letter to PM Nakasone to encourage fundraising in Japan for the required £5m] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 29 Tue Japan: FCO briefing for MT ("Call on Prime Minister by Japanese Ambassador: 30 October") [Prince Hiro; trade issues; arms control] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Oct 30 Wed Japan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Japanese Ambassador to UK) [Prince Hiro; trade issues; arms control] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Nov 12 Tue Japan: MT letter to Jim Prior MP (first Cryo Magnetic Resonance Imaging system in Japan) [proposal that MT visit during her trip to Japan] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Nov 15 Fri Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone (Prince Hiro) [residence in Britain as an Oxford University student] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 13 Mon Japan: FCO briefing for MT (UK-Japan 2000 Group post-Second Conference lunch) [summary of Conference discussions] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 14 Tue Japan: MT letter to Prime Minister Nakasone (Airbus A300-600) [mooted All Nippon Airways contract falls through; MT presses for reassurances from Japanese Government with regard to other pending contract bids] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Feb 20 Thu Japan: No.10 minute to MT ("Honda") [Peter Walker MP concerned about threat to employment in Midlands posed by rumoured opening of plant in Swindon] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Mar 24 Mon Japan: Chancellor of the Exchequer minute to MT ("Anglo-Japanese financial talks") [...improvement and the score is beginning to look quite respectable..."] [declassified Dec 2014]