ABSTRACT
On 12 and 13 January 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson and Prime Minister Eisaku Sato met in Washington to "exchange views on the situation and matters of mutual interest to the United States and Japan". The major purpose of the meeting, from President Johnson's point of view, was to attempt to resolve the problem of the industrious Japanese exporting too much and importing too little. The upshot of the Joint Communiqe and the subsequent joint planning conference in April 1965 was the foundation of the US-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program, with MacLeod as Chairman of the US Delegation and Toshio Kurokawa, Director of the Cancer Institute Hospital in Tokyo, as the Chairman of the Japanese Delegation. Most important to the American workers were the research grants and contracts awarded to them for cholera and diarrhoeal disease research by the US Cholera Panel.
