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This kind of justice to G.I.s might make some U.S. citizens feel better about turning over U.S. Soldier William Girard to the Japanese courts, but Tokyo's Mainichi had a deeper worry: "This is like telling the world that in Japan you can do anything if you are drunk. Perhaps we should advertise Japan abroad not as the land of Mt. Fuji and geishas but as a paradise for alcoholics." About twelve Japanese a year win acquittal on murder charges by proving they were drunk or drugged (a plea that is no defense at all in U.S. courts). Announced...
...Japan, where anti-American sentiment has been fanned by the jurisdictional dispute over another G.I. who is charged with manslaughter, Hokkaido Shimbun said that the riots were "primarily attributable to American racial prejudice and superiority complex." The usually pro-American Mainichi Shimbun exulted: "The incident proves an old saying: 'Even a worm one inch long is one-half inch of spirit.'" In Bangkok the middle-of-the-road daily Satirapharp cautioned: "The incident on Formosa has taught us that we must not let too many Americans come to our country...
Last week friends hailed MacArthur's appointment to succeed Ambassador John Allison as "a natural." But the feeling was not universal; commented Tokyo's second biggest newspaper, Mainichi Shimbun, "The name MacArthur will not make the man's job any easier." The job: to follow up Allison's "civilianizing" of post-occupation Japanese-American relations. Chief problems: the future status of U.S. military bases in Japan, growing demands for return of such prewar Japanese possessions as Okinawa and the Bonin Islands, Japan's desire for more trade with Communist China...
...Stung by Japanese criticism of their playing ("We have nothing to learn from the Dodgers," said the manager of the Mainichi Orions), the Dodgers finally got themselves untracked, clobbered the Kanto All-Stars 8-0 and 12-1, brought their touring record to four wins, two losses and a draw. Japanese ballplayers, admitted Dodger Vice President Fresco Thompson, "are somewhere between the Texas League and the Southern Association, and that is quite complimentary...
...tenderhearted Japanese public was properly indignant. Tokyo's Mainichi Shimbun last week carried a tearjerking headline: MAMMA AND BABY MARIMO FOUND. The pair had been abandoned in a milk bottle on a train from Hokkaido. The Japanese love marimos, as pets and as national treasures, and they hate anybody heartless enough to abuse them...