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...Japanese seem ambivalent about the escalating tensions with America. "Japan's view of the U.S. is in a dangerous balance," says Yukio Okamoto, a former Foreign Ministry official who heads his own consulting firm in Tokyo. "The feeling that Japan needs to cooperate with the U.S. still remains strong, but at the same time there is a sense that the U.S. is being selfish and blaming everything on Japan." To a large extent, Japanese who lived through World War II, now in their mid-50s and older, feel indebted to the U.S. People in their 40s tend...
...bombing in Jerusalem in which 15 people died and more than 50 were injured. Others were Adnan Kleihal and Sudhi Naarani, who were jailed for life in 1975 for planting a bomb in the students' cafeteria at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. Perhaps the best known was Kozo Okamoto, 37, a pro-Palestinian Japanese terrorist who was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in an airport massacre of 26 people in Israel in 1972. The Japanese government formally expressed regret over Israel's decision to release Okamoto and said it would attempt to bring him back to Japan to stand...
DIED. Yoichi Okamoto, 69, the first official White House photographer, appointed by President Lyndon Johnson and given unprecedented access to create a complete record of an Administration; by his own hand (hanging); in Bethesda...
...spies the dim outline of the New World, Washington's hope and anxiety as he crosses the icy Delaware to surprise the Hessians in their Christmas celebrations. "Can you imagine having had thousands of candid and honest pictures of Charlemagne, Kublai Khan or Abraham Lincoln?" asks Yoichi Okamoto, who was official photographer to Lyndon Johnson. Okamoto's excitement is catching. Photojournalism has known many great days since the first news shot 139 years ago, a panoramic view of the destruction caused by the great Hamburg fire of 1842; and the glories of the original LIFE the greatest...
...mouthpiece, the skyjackers warned that their hostages would be killed and the jet blown up unless 53 assorted "freedom fighters" were released from prisons. Israeli jails held 40 of them, including Melchite Catholic Archbishop Ilarion Capucci, who was convicted two years ago of gunrunning for Palestinian guerrillas, and Kozo Okamoto, the only survivor of the three Japanese Red Army members who massacred 27 bystanders in 1972 at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport. The 13 other extremists, claimed the skyjackers, were imprisoned in France, Switzerland, Kenya and West Germany. Among the six German prisoners were terrorist members of the Baader...