ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the second day of the Sino-Japanese negotiations, including the fallout from Tanaka’s speech the previous evening. As expected, Taiwan and the legal status of the 1952 treaty that Japan had signed with its government were key points of contention in the initial negotiations over the joint statement, particularly as the Japanese government was constrained by an unwillingness to go farther than the Americans had during Nixon’s visit. This concerned both the legal status of Taiwan and whether the language of the joint statement treated the war between Japan as ongoing or having already ended. This chapter describes the process through which the Japanese leaders were able to reach language acceptable to the Chinese.
