Editing Eisaku Satō (section)

=== Foreign policy ===
[[File:Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos with Japanese Prime Minister Eisaku Satō and his wife.jpg|thumb|Satō and his wife with [[Ferdinand Marcos|Ferdinand]] and [[Imelda Marcos]]]]
==== China and Taiwan ====
Satō is the last Prime minister of Japan to visit [[Republic of China|Taiwan]] during his term. In 1965, Satō approved a US$150 million loan to [[Republic of China|Taiwan]]. He visited [[Taipei]] in September 1967. In 1969, Satō insisted that the defense of Taiwan was necessary for the safety of Japan. Satō followed the United States in most major issues, but Satō opposed the [[Nixon visit to China]].<ref>MacMillan. Nixon and Mao: The Week that Changed the World</ref> Satō also bitterly opposed the entry of the PRC into the [[United Nations]] in 1971.

==== South Korea ====
On 22 June 1965, the Satō government and [[South Korea]] under [[Park Chung Hee]] signed the [[Treaty on Basic Relations Between Japan and the Republic of Korea]], which normalized relations between Japan and South Korea for the first time. Relations with Japan had previously not been officially established since Korea's [[National Liberation Day of Korea|decolonization]] and [[Division of Korea|division]] at the end of World War II.

==== Southeast Asia ====
During Satō's term, Japan participated in the creation of the [[Asian Development Bank]] in 1966 and held a ministerial level conference on [[Southeast Asia]]n economic development.<ref name=hoshiro>{{cite web|last=Hoshiro|first=Hiroyuki|title=Postwar Japanese and Southeast Asian History - A New Viewpoint|url=http://ricas.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/asj/eng/html/ess018.html|publisher=Research and Information Center for Asian Studies|access-date=6 January 2013|date=7 May 2007}}</ref> It was the first international conference sponsored by the Japanese government in the postwar period. In 1967, he was also the first Japanese prime minister to visit [[Singapore]]. He was largely supportive of the [[South Vietnam]]ese government throughout the [[Vietnam War]].