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1939 The US announced that it would break off its 1911 trade treaty with Japan in six months.
1976 Former Japanese prime minister Tanaka Kakuei was arrested for accepting bribes from US Lockheed corp.
1981 Japan and the USSR blocked a world ban on whaling.
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