Mike Mans- Pax Nipponica? field, in Foreign Affairs (Spring 1989), 58 E. 68th St., New York,
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Mike Mansfield, the recently retired U.S. ambassador to Tokyo (1 977-89), minces no words: "The most important bilateral relationship in the world today is that be- tween the United States and Japan." To- gether, the two nations a...