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On December 27, 1974 Foreign Minister Kiichi Miyazawa of Japan and U.S. Ambassador J. D. Hodgson formally exchanged notes acknowledging the intention of their respective governments to establish a binational nonprofit foundation. (Photograph provided by Itsuzo Shigematsu, Chairman of RERF, and reproduced with his permission.)
