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...misunderstood from the beginning. Kembei, says Ishikawa, was meant to describe Japan's sense of impotence when faced with America's demands for assistance during the gulf war. Ishikawa points out that U.S.-bashing demonstrations, a regular and often violent feature of student life in Tokyo during the 1960s, are practically unknown these days. And while marginal politicians, assorted TV-news anchors and intellectuals are taking noisy potshots at the U.S., no important cultural figures in Japan -- such as, say, sumo superstar Takahanada or baseball's Hiromitsu Ochiai -- have been heard uttering such sentiments. Asks Ishikawa: "Everyone is saying, 'Apparently...
...Sidra in 1981. Five years later, Reagan wowed the world with Thirty Seconds over Tripoli. That raid was nothing less than an assassination attempt, in the same spirit as the cloak-and-dagger boys' dreams of using exploding cigars and Mafia hit men to finish off Castro in the 1960s. Much was made of how U.S. bombers taught Libya a lesson for its sponsorship of terrorism. Maybe so, but they missed their main target: Gaddafi himself...
...welcome Japanese investment in America (jobs) even as they deplore Japanese trading practices (lost jobs). No Democratic candidate would qualify as a Japan expert, but all, aside from Tsongas, have visited the country. In fact Harkin lived in Japan for 18 months as a naval aviator during the 1960s, and Brown made pilgrimages both as Governor and, more recently, as an acolyte in a Zen retreat in Kamakura...
Finally, I was surprised by the Peninsula staffers' attacks on Dean Archie C. Epps III. To fault Epps for being unable to control the crazed mobs of the 1960s is like faulting a drowning man for sinking. Over the years, Epps has been quietly supportive of campus conservatives; Peninsula's attack on him are unfair and inaccurate...
Barish thus ignores the Black nationalist and student movements of the 1960s, and their critiques that many still hold today. Black nationalist leaders like Malcolm X generally prioritized individual responsibility in reform and saw government as a tool for the power elite's oppression rather than a means to a conducive ends. And groups such as Students for a Democratic Society formed largely in response to the Vietnam War, a product of Cold War liberalism...