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Japanese Defense Chief Postpones U.S. Visit "Til After Mir Deorbit
By Kyodo World Service
posted: 10:17 am ET
13 March 2001
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Japanese Defense Agency chief Toshitsugu Saito said Tuesday he will postpone his planned visit to the United States from Sunday because Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will be there around the same time and he, Saito, has to stand by for the plunge of the Ru Japanese Defense Agency chief Toshitsugu Saito said Tuesday he will postpone his planned visit to the United States Sunday because Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori will be there around the same time and he, Saito, has to stand by for the plunge of the Russian space station Mir into the Pacific. [uplink] Saito said he decided to postpone the visit for talks with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, in light of Mori's visit beginning Sunday for summit talks with U.S. President George W. Bush on Monday and Mir's expected fall into the Pacific around March 21. ''It's a matter of crisis management and we have to make perfect preparations for emergencies,'' Saito told a press conference. The aging space station is expected to pass over Japan before it hits the ocean. Saito and Rumsfeld were scheduled to discuss the Feb. 9 sinking of the Japanese fisheries training ship Ehime Maru by a U.S. submarine in a collision off Hawaii, among other things.
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