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...laws went off the books, and the emancipation of Japanese women made giant strides. Just how wide the break with the past has become was demonstrated when Novelist Shusaku Endo published, in the popular weekly Shukan Asahi, an interview with no less a personage than Mrs. Hiroko Sato, wife of Premier Eisaku Sato...
...interview was entitled "My Tearful Early Days of Marriage," and in it Mrs. Sato described the Premier as about as fierce an old-style Japanese husband as can be imagined-a rake, a wife-beater and a man so taciturn that he never consulted his wife on anything. It was not only an uncommonly candid flashback of the Satos' early wedded life but a commentary on the old code and how it has been broken. And the source was the woman whose husband heads one of the most industrialized and progressive nations in the world...
...Sato was honest to a fault about the early days of her marriage to Sato, a cousin. It was a match that, like many of the time, had been arranged while she was still in primary school. Her first shock as a bride came when she realized that her husband was consorting with geisha girls, Japan's professional entertainers, and was spending more than half the family budget on them. "I really dreaded geisha girls," she recalled. Her eldest son almost threw a rock at a geisha whom he saw walking with his father...
...Children. When Mrs. Sato complained to her husband about his exploits, she said, "he beat me and smashed things. There were quite a few people who sympathized with me and counseled him against resorting to violence against me. He was not without affection toward me, to be sure, but he certainly did not have the ability to express it. Girls nowadays would simply walk out on him. Even at home he was always oddly silent and played solitaire. He's been playing solitaire these past 40 years, when I think of it. He certainly proved reluctant to open...
With the vital U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty coming up for renewal in 1970, it seemed increasingly obvious that U.S. concessions to the newly re-elected government of Premier Eisaku Sato might be in order, if only to give Sato a stronger hand in calming the anti-U.S. protesters. Last summer, after the Itazuke crash, both Japanese and U.S. officials began drawing up a list of facilities that might be given up. When a formal Japanese request for a scaling-down of the American presence arrived, the Americans were ready for discussions. The result: last week the U.S. announced...