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Fumio Tanaka and Shosuke Matsumoto, both 24 and friends since boyhood, attended the same high school, fought with the Japanese forces, and are now completing their economic studies at Tokyo's Keio University. Their common background even includes the purge of both their fathers: Tanaka's because he was a wartime cabinet member, Matsu-moto's as a general. However, young Tanaka is a conservative, young Matsumoto a Communist. They typify the two vigorous parties in Japan-and the way Japanese youth is torn...
Last week, Tanaka and Matsumoto talked with TIME Correspondent Sam Welles, who cabled back this report of their conversation...
...Matsumoto: "Nothing in the world is more important than Communism. There is no truth except dialectical materialism. I wish I could go to a university in Russia where it is the only system taught. When Japan becomes Communist, we will teach nothing but Marxism here...
...Takizo Matsumoto is a Diet member and a longtime baseball enthusiast (ever since he was a student at Harvard 20 years ago). In Tokyo last week he was watching some college students practicing. The coach signaled for a bunt, but the player whacked the ball into right field. Takizo Matsumoto went up to the boy. "Didn't you see the coach calling for a bunt?" he asked. The boy shrugged. "Sure I saw him," he said. "But is this not a free democracy...
...building a few miles away. Though some might say that Japanese politics there were being run according to the familiar prewar stage directions, there were certainly unexpected faces in several of the leading roles. Tetsu Katayama, the new Socialist Premier, is the Presbyterian grandson of a Shinto priest. Jiichiro Matsumoto, vice chairman of the Diet's upper house, is one of Japan's Eta* "untouchables." The new Cabinet Secretary, smart Socialist Strategist Suehiro Nishio, is a former steel worker...