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1982 Nov 22 - 1983 Oct 31
Prime Ministerial Private Office files

PREM19/1073
Japan (Commercial relations with Japan; effects of Japanese imports on the European car industry; possible Nissan investment in UK) (Part 3)

Document type: File list item
Source: TNA, PREM19 series
Release date: 2013 Aug 1
Classification: Confidential
Page count: 295
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82 Nov 24 We Major Japan: MT message to Prime Minister Suzuki ("Message to Mr Suzuki") [MT opts to omit reference to Falklands in draft reply to Suzuki, following his defeat by Nakasone in election] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 25 Th Major Japan: MT message to Prime Minister Suzuki ("Prime Minister's message to Mr Suzuki") [text of Suzuki's message to MT, and MT's reply, following Suzuki's defeat by Nakasone in election] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Nov 30 Tu Major Japan: MT message to Prime Minister Nakasone ("Prime Minister's message to Mr Nakasone") [congratulations on election victory] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 1 We Major Japan: No.10 letter to Japanese Embassy (letter bomb incident at 10 Downing Street) [letter of thanks for Embassy's expression of concern] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 23 Th Major Japan: Lord Cockfield minute to MT ("Japanese machine tools") ["I am pleased to say that the talks have led to a confidential understanding which is acceptable to our industry"] [declassified Aug 2013]
82 Dec 29 We Major Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Mr Abe's visit to Europe") [the Nakasone government; trade friction; East-West relations; the Falklands] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 5 We Major Japan: No.10 briefing for MT (Japanese Foreign Minister's visit to the UK) [background briefing & briefing on Abe's meetings with Jenkin & Pym in advance of his meeting with MT] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 6 Th Major Japan: MT letter to Chair of Nissan (investment in the UK) ["I should like to make sure that you are aware that the leasing route is not an alternative to the receipt of Government grants"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 6 Th Major Japan: MT record of conversation (MT, Shintaro Abe) ["Call by the Japanese Foreign Minister": EC & trading relations; the trade imbalance; USSR & China] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 11 Tu Major Japan: Pym PS letter to No.10 (death of Ichiro Nakagawa, former Director General of the Science and Technology Agency in Japan) ["acted as... [MT's] escort on two of the out of town visits"; advice for MT on response to news of Mr Nakagawa's death] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 14 Fr Major Japan: Shintaro Abe letter to MT (visit to UK) [thanks for hospitality; "I shall continue to make my best efforts for the furtherance of close relations between Japan and the U.K."] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 18 Tu Major Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Sanyo VTR investment in UK") [announcement following Jenkin meeting with President of Sanyo] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 18 Tu Major Japan: Jenkin PS letter to No.10 ("Hitachi Maxwell announcement") [press release coinciding with Jenkin visit to Japan] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 19 We Major Japan: Pym PS letter to No.10 ("New Japanese economic measures") [draft message from Pym to Japanese Foreign Minister welcoming measures to address trade imbalance "while at the same time seeking to nail the Japanese down on their future programme of work on trade problems"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 20 Th Major Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Visit to Japan of Secretary of State for Industry: talks with Mr Yamanaka") [record of discussion: investment in the UK; trade imbalance] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 20 Th Major Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Visit to Japan of Secretary of State for Industry: Mitsubishi Electric") [investment in UK] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 20 Th Major Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Visit to Japan of Secretary of State for Industry: Honda") [investment in UK] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 22 Sa Major Japan: UKE Tokyo telegram to FCO ("Mr. Jenkin's meeting with Nissan: 21 January") [record of discussion: investment in the UK] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Jan 27 Th Major Japan: MT letter to Chairman of Japan's Special Committee on International Economic Measures (addressing the trade imbalance) ["We welcome the efforts that you and your Government have made... We look forward to seeing effective results"] [declassified Aug 2013]
83 Feb 15 Tu Major Japan: Lord Cockfield PS letter to No.10 ("EC-Japan talks on export restraint") [outcomes: "we shall need to press very strongly if we are to achieve a significant improvement in our trade balance"] [declassified Aug 2013]