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...history. The Japanese could easily return the compliment. Reingold and his colleagues, Frank Iwama and S. Chang, covered the country from Hokkaido to Kyushu and Okinawa. They attended cheerful festivals as well as grim student riots; they interviewed philosophers, business magnates, artists, shopkeepers, critics and politicians (including Premier Sato). "In a way, I have been working on this cover ever since I arrived here just one year ago, collecting interviews, impressions and material," says Reingold. If that is true of Reingold, it certainly is doubly so of Iwama, who has been a member of the Tokyo bureau for 20 years...
...engulfed in mist, sit down to wait until the fog clears." There are, however, a few details that will not wait. The U.S.-Japan mutual security treaty comes up for reconsideration in June; Sato intends to keep it in effect, though the negotiations are likely to be punctuated by student demonstrations. Sato's majority in the Diet rules out serious parliamentary oppo sition, and now that he has secured the return of Okinawa from the U.S., the protests may be muted as well...
...Eisaku Sato's dream, as he expressed it in a speech two weeks ago, is to make the 1970s "an era when Japan's na tional power will carry unprecedented weight in world affairs." Japan should be a "content but not arrogant" coun try, he said, whose example would in spire "the whole world to agree that the human race is far richer for Ja pan's existence." Whether Japan can serve as a model for the rest of the world, or even the rest of Asia, is, how ever, doubtful. In climate, in resources, but above...
...Liberal Democrats, to be sure, had a lot going for them. In the past ten years, Japan's astounding boomu has quadrupled the gross national product (to $167 billion), choked Tokyo streets with Toyotas and filled workers' homes with TV sets and gadgetry. Sato's November trip to Washington, where he negotiated the return of Okinawa to Japanese rule in 1972, erased the international issue that most concerned voters. Beyond that, Sato's main asset was the stumbling Socialists themselves...
...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 define its role...