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### Viewing cable 09TOKYO2377, A/S CAMPBELL, GOJ OFFICIALS DISCUSS PM HATOYAMA'S

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    S E C R E T TOKYO 002377

    SIPDIS

    DEPARTMENT FOR EAP/J
    NSC FOR RUSSELL
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    E.O. 12958: DECL: 10/15/2029
    TAGS: PREL PGOV MARR MOPS JA
    SUBJECT: A/S CAMPBELL, GOJ OFFICIALS DISCUSS PM HATOYAMA'S
    COMMENTS ON U.S./CHINA/SOUTH KOREA

    Classified By: Deputy Chief of Mission James P. Zumwalt; Reasons 1.4 (B
    ) and (D)

    ¶1.  (S) Summary: EAP A/S Kurt Campbell underscored in his
    October 11-12 meetings with senior-level Japanese officials
    the U.S. Government's concern regarding Prime Minister
    Hatoyama's remarks during the October 10 Japan-China-ROK
    Summit in Beijing on U.S.-Japan relations.  He strongly urged
    Japanese leaders not to seek to improve relations with other
    governments at the expense of the United States.  He pointed
    out that public comments by U.S. officials that the U.S.
    Government ought to focus on China at the expense of Japan
    would lead to a crisis in bilateral relations.

    ¶2.  (S) Parliamentary Vice-Minister Akihisa Nagashima assured
    A/S Campbell that Hatoyama did not mean to imply that Japan
    would seek to improve relations with China and South Korea at
    the expense of the United States.  Ministry of Foreign
    Affairs (MOFA) Director General for Asia and Oceanic Affairs
    Akitaka Saiki noted MOFA's surprise at Hatoyama's comments,
    adding that the new Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ)
    Government was still in the process of organizing itself in
    the foreign policy realm.  A/S Campbell pointed out to Saiki
    that the U.S. Government was also concerned about Foreign
    Minister Okada's recent remarks indicating the exclusion of
    the United States from a new East Asian regional
    architecture.  Saiki, acknowledging Okada's ""stubbornness"" on
    the issue, highlighted that MOFA officials deemed it
    ""unthinkable"" to exclude the United States.  He asserted,
    however, that only China benefited if the United States and
    Japan were to debate membership in the East Asia Community
    (EAC) and that China would never allow for Japan to take the
    lead in creating the regional architecture.  All Japanese
    interlocutors stressed to A/S Campbell the primacy of Japan's
    relations with the United States.  In earlier meetings on
    October 11 with A/S Campbell, former Japanese Cabinet advisor
    Yukio Okamoto and MOFA Director General for North American
    Affairs Kazuyoshi Umemoto highlighted Hatoyama's personality
    shortcomings as a possible source for the problematic
    comments and urged that A/S Campbell raise the U.S.
    Government's concerns at higher levels.  End Summary.

    USG Concern at Hatoyama's Comments
    ----------------------------------

    ¶3.  (C) During October 11-12 discussions with senior-level
    Japanese officials, visiting EAP A/S Campbell repeatedly
    noted the U.S. Government's concern regarding public remarks
    by Prime Minister Hatoyama at the October 10
    Japan-China-South Korea Summit in Beijing, in which he stated
    that Japan had focused excessively on its relations with the
    United States, as opposed to Asia.  A/S Campbell observed
    that the U.S. Government supported the new Democratic Party
    of Japan (DPJ) Government in efforts to build a strong
    relationship with South Korea and China.  He cautioned,
    however, that Prime Minister Hatoyama's comments in Beijing
    drew surprise from the highest levels of the U.S. Government.
     ""Imagine the Japanese response if the U.S. Government were
    to say publicly that it wished to devote more attention to
    China than Japan,"" A/S Campbell asked his interlocutors
    hypothetically.  Such remarks would create a crisis in
    U.S.-Japan relations, from which recovery would be difficult,
    he explained.  He continued that the United States would
    continue to underscore its commitment to robust relations
    with Japan and would refrain from commenting publicly on
    Hatoyama's remarks.  He nevertheless urged that Japanese
    leaders avoid phrasing their desire for better Chinese and
    South Korean relations at the expense of the United States.

    Vice-Minister Nagashima: Misinterpretation
    ------------------------------------------

    ¶4.  (C) In his October 12 meeting with A/S Campbell, Ministry
    of Defense (MOD) Parliamentary Vice-Minister Akihisa
    Nagashima said the Prime Minister did not mean to imply that

    Japan should put more emphasis on China and South Korea than
    on the United States.  Rather, Hatoyama solely intended to
    signal his intent to strengthen the Japan-China-South Korea
    trilateral relationship as an initiative going forward.
    Nagashima added that he wished to reassure U.S. officials
    that Japan did not aim to build East Asian relations at the
    expense of the United States.

    ¶5.  (C) A/S Campbell expressed appreciation for Nagashima's
    assurances and noted that the Japanese government could take
    steps to demonstrate the closeness of U.S.-Japan relations.
    One ""wonderful gesture"" would be for the DPJ Government to
    invite to Japan U.S. veterans who had been involved in the
    World War II campaigns in Corregidor and Bataan.  A decision
    by the Japanese government to welcome these veterans, most of
    whom were in their 70s and 80s, would have great significance
    in the United States and would demonstrate how far the two
    countries had come since the war, explained A/S Campbell.

    DG Saiki: MOFA Surprised
    ------------------------

    ¶6.  (C) MOFA Director General for Asia and Oceanic Affairs
    Akitaka Saiki stressed that the Prime Minister's comments in
    front of the press had surprised MOFA, which believed that it
    was inappropriate to characterize Japan as excessively
    dependent on the United States.  He explained to A/S Campbell
    that the DPJ Government was still in the process of
    organizing itself as to ""who spoke on which issues.""  Saiki
    continued that U.S.-Japan relations remained central and that
    the Japanese government did not intend to emphasize Asia at
    the expense of the Alliance.

    ¶7. (S) In his meeting with Saiki, A/S Campbell also cited
    U.S. concern at Foreign Minister Okada's recent remarks
    suggesting the exclusion of the United States from a new East
    Asian architecture.  Saiki acknowledged that Foreign Minister
    Okada had been obstinate about not including the United
    States in such proposals.  He offered his view as a MOFA
    bureaucrat, however, that ""it was unthinkable to exclude the
    United States,"" adding that the participants to the
    trilateral summit had not discussed proposals for an East
    Asia Community in any detail.  Okada, Saiki pointed out, was
    ""only thinking five to ten years in the future about
    contiguous countries"" when propounding EAC ideas.  Hatoyama,
    for his part, aspired mainly to form a core of countries in
    East Asia with shared values.  If the United States and
    Japan, however, were to debate EAC membership, only China
    would benefit, Saiki asserted.  China, moreover, would never
    allow Japan to take the lead in creating an East Asian
    architecture.  He recounted that when Chinese Premier Wen
    Jiabao had expressed interest in pursuing the EAC proposal
    through the ASEAN Plus 3 process, Hatoyama had countered that
    the ""3 Plus ASEAN"" would be a way for Northeast Asia to take
    the lead.  Wen did not reply, noted Saiki.

    State Secretary Takemasa: Japan a Sovereign Nation
    --------------------------------------------- -----

    ¶8.  (C) Later on October 12, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
    (MOFA) State Secretary Koichi Takemasa responded to A/S
    Campbell's points by noting that U.S.-Japan relations
    remained the basis of Japanese security policy.  Takemasa
    observed that Hatoyama's comments were ""mere lip service"" to
    China, as the Prime Minister regards Japan's relations with
    the United States as ""primary.""  He added, however, that
    Japan ""had pride as a sovereign nation"" and recognized that
    it must improve relations with China.

    Okamoto and DG Umemoto: Hatoyama's Personality
    --------------------------------------------- -

    ¶9.  (S) In an October 11 discussion with A/S Campbell, former
    Japanese Cabinet advisor Yukio Okamoto said that the comments
    on China and South Korea showed that the Prime Minister was

    weak when speaking with strong-willed individuals.  Okamoto
    added that the Prime Minister usually voiced his opinion
    based on the last strong comments he had heard.  In a similar
    vein, MOFA DG for North America Kauyoshi Umemoto told A/S
    Campbell over lunch on October 12 that Prime Minister
    Hatoyama had ""the habit of telling people what they wished to
    hear.""  He also confirmed that Hatoyama's remarks in Beijing
    had not been planned, and he recommended that A/S Campbell
    raise the U.S. Government's concern at higher levels.

    ¶10.  (U) A/S Campbell has cleared this message.
    ROOS

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