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When I first came to Japan back in the 1960s, Japanese professional baseball was in its heyday. It had produced, arguably, its best squad ever - the proud Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, who were then in the process of winning nine consecutive Japan Championships. The team was powered by Sadaharu Oh, the man who would go on to break Hank Aaron's lifetime home-run record, and its charismatic, clutch-hitting third baseman Shigeo Nagashima. Los Angeles Dodger owner Walter O'Malley was so impressed with Nagashima that he tried to buy his contract, but the Giants' aging founder Matsutaro Shoriki turned...
...from wasabi-flavored potato chips to schoolgirl porn. Today's toy robots, says Nakamura dismissively, tend to be cobbled together with cheap plastic. Die-cast robots, on the other hand, are emblematic of the kind of Japanese craftsmanship that transformed the nation's image from shoddy imitator in the 1960s to technological leader just a decade later...
...Governor Jim Gilmore replaced the old, pro-rebel state proclamation of Confederate History Month with a new one honoring "all Virginians who served in the Civil War," the Sons of Confederate Veterans condemned him for "honoring people who...murdered, raped and pillaged." In Selma, Ala., a battleground in the 1960s civil rights movement, whites are militant in defense of a new statue of Confederate hero Nathan Bedford Forrest, even though he was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan...
Thank you for spelling my name correctly (a basic skill for any aspiring journalist) and thank you for mentioning "Dixie's Dirty Secret," a book that is, in part, an account of my work on behalf of civil rights in Mississippi in the 1960s. The KKK gave that book terrible reviews—and, as always, I was happy to receive them. I am proud of my work on behalf of equal rights for African Americans and Jews, and if you are on the other side of that issue, I urge you to thoughtfully reconsider your position...
Here they are sitting their way into glory for “social justice” (a complicated term that the protesters have started using casually), emulating the famous protests of the late 1960s. But the current protests bear almost no resemblance to the old ones in which real social upheaval caused real tensions that led to real clashes...