Word: japanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RUINED MAP, by Kobo Abe. In this psychological whodunit by one of Japan's best novelists (The Woman in the Dunes, The Face of Another), a detective turns a search for a missing husband into a metaphysical quest for his own identity...
...generally pro-American government of Premier Eisaku Sato wants Okinawa to revert to Japanese control; U.S. Presidents from Eisenhower on have promised that someday it will. When that happens, however, the U.S. armory would become subject to the same conditions that now apply to American bases in Japan: no nuclear weapons under any circumstances, and no introduction of new weaponry or dispatch of U.S. forces to combat from Japanese stations without prior consultations...
Would U.S. influence recede with the infantry? Not necessarily. Some air and sea forces would doubtless remain in place, along with the dollar. In a recent essay, Edwin Reischauer, a former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, wrote: "We should do our best, through economic and technological aid, to assist [Asians] in their long-range development. There is no reason to believe that neoimperialists, whether they be international Communists or Chinese, can dominate other Asian nations any more successfully than we, the Japanese or the French...
...Pueblo incident, the defects in communications were evident even before the vessel sailed. Pueblo's electronic-spying mission was assigned a minimum-risk factor. Neither the Pacific Fleet Command in Hawaii nor the regional command in Japan was aware that Radio Pyongyang had already threatened retaliation for what it called "provocative" acts in the Sea of Japan off North Korea's east coast...
Warning. Thirteen days before Pueblo sailed from Japan on her mission, the National Security Agency, the Government's giant cryptography and communications intelligence center, urged that more "protective measures" be taken for the ship. The recommendation never got past Commander-in-Chief Pacific headquarters. Another copy of the message, addressed to the Chief of Naval Operations, was lost in the Pentagon. Once Pueblo's plight was known, it took Navy officials in Japan more than 40 minutes to reach the Fifth Air Force headquarters in Japan by telephone. The two commands had failed to establish emergency communication procedures...