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Eban Concludes Five-day Visit to Japan; Warmly Welcomed in Tokyo

March 20, 1967
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Israel’s Foreign Minister, Abba Eban, left Tokyo today after a five-day visit to Japan, during which he received a warm welcome from officials, industrialists and the press, as well as from such groups as the Japan-Israel Friendship Association, the Japanese Association for Jewish Studies and the Japan Kibbutz Association.

The Japan Kibbutz Association, it was revealed, is studying the possibility of establishing a kibbutz-type community at Hokkaido, an underdeveloped island in the north. Eighty Japanese youths are now learning at first hand about Israeli kibbutz life by living in kibbutzim in Israel. Among the receptions tendered Mr. Eban here was a luncheon at the Foreign Correspondents Club where the Israeli said, in answer to questions, that neither war nor peace is likely to develop in the Middle East under present circumstances of Ara hostility toward Israel.

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