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Show SOVIET RERATIFIES JAPAN FISHING PACT MOSCOW, Dec. 22 OP - One source of soviet-Japanese friction was removed today with Russian agreement to let Japanese vessels continue fishing In soviet Pacific waters. The agreement, which would have expired December 31, was prolonged for one year, easing tension which ! developed when Russia earlier had , postponed a renewal 1 There had been threats by Japanese Jap-anese leaders of "forcible action" to conserve the Important fishing industry, which employs 20.000 j Japanese. Soviet newspapers had declared Japan's signsture of an anticommunist pact with Germany j and Italy delayed signing of a new agreement |