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Here again, the Vietnam parallel may be relevant. Defeat in Vietnam did not prevent the U.S. from maintaining close cooperative relationships with other regional countries, including Japan, South Korea and the Philippines. Nor did it stop the U.S. from forging sometimes productive ties with Vietnam's backers (including China and what was then the Soviet Union) or, with the passage of time, with Vietnam itself. Today Asia is the most dynamic part of the world, and the U.S. is a central participant in that dynamism...
...executives," says Kodama, so that instead of circling back to the Pilgrims and Indians every autumn, children at Stanford do social-studies units on Asia, Africa, Australia, Mexico and South America. Students actively apply the lessons in foreign language and culture by video-conferencing with sister schools in Japan, Africa and Mexico, by exchanging messages, gifts and joining in charity projects...
...Omega watch and an Aston Martin. From your article, I understood how the movie industry's obsession with the hyperkinetic brutality of action films is choking the sophisticated elegance of 007. Isn't there any way to make more room for cultural diversity in Hollywood? Hiroaki Goda Kasuga, Japan...
Tsurumi Shunsuke ’42, a philosophy concentrator, was interrogated by FBI agents who asked him whether he supported the U.S. or Japan in the war. As Tsurumi later recounted in an interview with the newsletter of the Japan Foundation, he told the FBI agents that he was an “anarchist” who supported neither side. He remained in a detention center in East Boston for several months before choosing to return to Japan, according to the newsletter...
Tsurumi came from a family of wealthy politicians in Japan, but Fujimoto hailed from humbler roots...