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...opposition Socialist and Communist parties meanwhile celebrated striking gains. Socialist Party Chairman Tomomi Narita announced that a new wave in Japanese politics had finally arrived. At Communist Party headquarters, thunderous banzais echoed from the hall...
Last week, in the bloodiest of a long series of skirmishes over the building of Tokyo's new jetport at Narita, some 40 miles southeast of the capital, that code was violently broken. Nearly 5,000 riot police were on hand to help airport officials expropriate three parcels of farm land that were holding up the last stage of construction. The farmers were grimly determined to resist seizure of their ancestral tracts. So too were some 3,000 student activists...
Japan's massive, often violent student demonstrations and its strong pacifist sentiment suggest widespread discontent, but the Socialists have not been able to tap it. "Our fundamental fault," concedes wavy-haired Party Chairman Tomomi Narita, 58, "lies in our complacency about the changing times." But the party stubbornly plans to hang on to its policies, hoping that the times will change to fit them. The effect has been to concede virtual one-party rule to Sato's Liberal Democrats at a time when Japan, now the world's third industrial power, sorely needs many voices to help...
Crows see a good deal of native folk art in Japan, and sheer away from it on sight. G.I.s got a chance to inspect the same art at closer range last week when the farmers of the little village of Narita topped off a four-day summer festival with an exhibition of their best new scarecrows...
...Narita's 800 houses nestle in the rice paddies two hours west of Tokyo. All but 13 of the townspeople's 51 entries were eliminated before the show opened. The locally prominent portraitist Kiichi Okubo, who had been elected judge, thought they failed to meet the exacting best standards of a country where people look for art, as well as craft, in familiar things...