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UK-JAPAN:
MEETING WITH SIR JAMES EBERLE
1. I met Sir James Eberle at the reception held for the Tokyo Colloquium on 22 October. He had just returned from his trip to Japan and India. We had a long (and very discursive) discussion.
Governor of Hong Kong
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Sir James Eberle told me that Mr Patten had decided after all to attend the conference of the UK-Japan 2000 Group in Japan next March. I asked him whether he had discussed with Mr Patten possible Chinese sensitivities over this. If they had spoken about it at all it does not seem that they did so in detail.
UK-Japan 2000 Group
3. Sir J Eberle said that the political element of the UK team at next year's 2000 Group Conference was strong and should attract a good turn out on the Japanese side. It included David Howell, Marjorie Mowlem, Richard Needham, Sir David Steele and Kenneth Baker.
Young Leaders Forum
4. He said that although he had gone over the ground throughly with Tadashi Yamamoto, they had made no progress in finding a sponsoring body for the Young Leaders Forum. He would, however, be writing to Yamamoto setting out the concept in full. Sir J Eberle suggested that we should not reconvene the ad hoc committee until more progress was made on this.
Scholarships
5. I told Sir J Eberle that Sir J Coles had written to Lord Young to set up a meeting to discuss possible funding for scholarships. Sir J Eberle said that the Japanese had sucked their teeth about confining the scheme to one university in Japan, but he had pointed out that the scheme should not necessarily be a mirror-image of that in the UK.
Hong Kong Seminar
6. I told Sir J Eberle that Sir J Coles had urged us to give more thought to an innovative theme for a seminar in Hong Kong. Sir J Eberle said that he envisaged the event as being in two halves, one session a relatively small trilateral meeting, followed by a more general gathering which might even include Chinese attendance. My
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