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xxxvi • CHRONOLOGY
1992 9 January: Prime Minister Miyazawa and President Bush announce
the Tokyo Declaration on the Japan–U.S. Global Partnership
and an Action Plan for expansion of Japan’s imports of U.S.-made auto
parts to US$19 billion by 1994. 11 February: Japan, the United States,
Canada, and Russia sign the North Pacific salmon preservation treaty.
June: Peace-Keeping Operations (PKO) International Cooperation
Law is enacted. August: PKO International Peace Cooperation Law becomes
effective. 17 September: First group of Japanese self-defense
force troops dispatched to Cambodia.
1993 12 February: North Korea notifies the UN Security Council
that it will withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty because
of its dissatisfaction with nuclear inspection by the International Atomic
Energy Agency. 7 July: President Bill Clinton announces the new Pacific
community vision in a speech at Waseda University, Japan. 9 July:
Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and President Clinton announce the
establishment of the Japan–United States Framework for a New Economic
Partnership. September: Former Vice President Walter Mondale
arrives in Tokyo as United States ambassador to Japan. He serves until
December 1996. 10 July: Joint Statement on the Japan–United States
Framework for a New Economic Partnership by Prime Minister Kiichi
Miyazawa and President Clinton.
1994 1 February: First North Pacific security trilateral forum held in
Tokyo by experts from Japan, the United States, and Russia. 11 February:
Joint News Conference by President Clinton and Prime Minister
Morihiro Hosokawa. 12 August: The Advisory Group on Defense Issues
under Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama issues the Modality of
the Security and Defense Capability of Japan: The Outlook for the 21st
Century. 21 October: Agreed Framework between the United States of
America and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea signed.
1995 13 February: Japanese baseball player Hideo Nomo joins Los
Angeles Dodgers. 27 February: United States Security Strategy for the
East Asia–Pacific Region (Nye Report) announced. 2 May: Hideo
Nomo becomes the first Japanese player in U.S. Major Leagues in more
than 30 years. 16 May: Settlement of U.S.–Japanese Conflict on Automobile
and Auto Parts Trade, Statement by Ambassador Micky Kantor.
15 August: Prime Minister Murayama issues a statement on the 50th