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1981 Aug 24 - 1986 Oct 22
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1821
Japan (Visits to the UK by Japanese Foreign Ministers, Masoyashi Ito and Shintaro Abe)

Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2014 Dec 30
Classification: Secret
Page count: 64

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Date Value Title
80 Dec 5 Fr Major Japan: Prime Minister Suzuki letter to MT (Japanese-European relations) [trade relations; international economy; global political stability] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Dec 5 Fr Major Japan: Carrington PS letter to No.10 ("Visit to London by the Japanese Foreign Minister") [Carrington to meet with Ito; recommends MT do likewise to discuss Afghanistan; Iran; Middle East; economic relations] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Dec 8 Mo Major Japan: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Japanese Foreign Minister, 9-10 December") [oil prices; Middle East; EU restrictions on trade with Soviet Union; Japanese foreign aid & defence expenditure; trade imbalance; industrial collaboration; prospective visit from Japanese royal family for Royal Academy Great Japanese Exhibition] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Dec 8 Mo Major Japan: FCO briefing for MT ("Visit of Japanese Foreign Minister") [Nissan] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Dec 10 We Major Japan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Japanese Foreign Minister, Japanese Ambassador) [oil prices; Middle East; MT views on Carter and Reagan administrations; MT views on place of human rights in foreign policy; Poland] [declassified Dec 2014]
80 Dec 22 Mo Major Japan: Cockfield PS letter to No.10 ("Letter from the Japanese Prime Minister") [Poland; trade relations; Foreign Minister Ito's visit to UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Jan 5 Mo Major Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Letter to Japanese Prime Minister") [MT reply to Suzuki regarding Foreign Minister Ito's visit to UK] [declassified Dec 2014]
81 Jan 12 Mo Major Japan: Cockfield PS letter to No.10 ("Message from the Japanese Foreign Minister") ["...thanking... [MT] for the hospitality extended to him during his visit in December."] [declassified Dec 2014]
85 Dec 18 We Major Japan: Howe PS letter to No.10 ("Possible call by Foreign Minister of Japan: 21 January 1986") [Howe recommends MT meet with Shintaro Abe] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 14 Tu Major Japan: No.10 minute: Addison to Powell (Japanese Finance Minister) [Treasury advice that MT meet with Noboru Takeshita during his weekend in London] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 15 We Major Japan: UKE Tokyo briefing to FCO ("Visit of the Japanese Foreign Minister: 21 January") [Abe meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 15 We Major Japan: UKE Tokyo briefing to FCO ("Visit of the Japanese Foreign Minister: 21 January") [Abe meeting with MT] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 17 Fr Major Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Visit of the Japanese Foreign Minister") [UKA Giffard record of conversation with Shintaro Abe: Abe's forthcoming visit to UK: USSR; Falklands fishing] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 20 Mo Major Japan: No.10 briefing for MT ("Meeting with the Japanese Foreign Minister") [USSR; trade relations; international debt; International Tin Agreement] [declassified Dec 2014]
86 Jan 21 Tu Major Japan: No.10 record of conversation (MT, Japanese Foreign Minister, Japanese Ambassador, Japanese Director-General of European & Oceanic Affairs Bureau) [USSR; trade relations; international debt; International Tin Agreement; Falklands fisheries] [declassified Dec 2014]