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DECLASSIFIED
E. O. 11652, Sec. 3(E) and 5(D) or (D)
TOP SECRIDT
OSD letter, April 12, 1974
By NLT- Hu , NARS Date 7-375.
a. Japan's deficient economy cannot now support E program
of limited military armament without additional and prolonged
outside assistance in the form of food, raw materials for
industry, merchant shipping, and military equipment; and her
indigenous contribution towards such a program would be
restricted primarily to militery personnel, labor force, and
capital facilities.
b. Such action would require amendinent by the Japanese of
their new Constitution, our abrogation of the Potsdam Declare-
tion, and E. complete revision of subsequent applicable occu.-
pettion policy decisions formulated by the United States in
conjunction with the other ten (10) member nations of the
Fer Eestern Commission, revisions which would be strongly
opposed not only by the Soviets but also by other nations
located in or having important interests in the Far East.
9. Early increase of the Japanese civilian police should be
effected in order to expand the existing centrally-controlled
National rurel police which, in addition to its normal duties,
would assist occupation forces in performance of their local
security missions and provide a vehicle for possible organization
of Japanese ermed forces at E later date.
10. Early establishment, or necessary increase as appropriate,
should be effected of a Japanese coastal police which, in addition
to its normal duties, would assist occupation forces in perform-
ance of their local security missions and provide a vehicle for
possible organization of a Japanese coast guard at a later date.
11. Plans should be prepared now for the eventual establishment
of limited Japenese ermed forces upon the termination or sub-
stantial reduction of Allied occupation; such forces to be
organized, initially trained, and strictly supervised by the
United States, and to be for the purposes of maintoining internal
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