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...FACE OF BUDDHA by Jerrold Schecter. 300 pages. Coward-Mc-Cann...
Today, the bold style and clean line of Japan's foremost woodcut artist can be seen in major museums the world over. Among his early collectors was an American naval officer named Jerry Schecter, who was based in Kobe in 1957 and returned to Japan in 1964 as TIME-LIFE bureau chief in Tokyo. Schecter filed the bulk of the reporting for this week's cover to Writer Robert Jones and Senior Editor Edward Jamieson. Schecter also led the search for a Japanese artist to portray Japan's Premier...
...cover story, Writer Jones was able to draw on his own expertise as well as that of Bureau Chief Schecter, Reporters Frank Iwama and Sungyung Chang, and Researcher Sara Collins. Jones put in three tours of duty with the Navy in Japanese waters in the '50s. "You feel you understand the Japanese," he says. "The people captivate you. The Japanese are complex, but they are quite scrutable...
...Natu Pass, high in the Himalayas above Sikkim. The Chinese charged that a group of Indian soldiers had occupied "three aggressive military works" on the boundary and confronted Chinese frontier guards for 2½ hours. Actually, the soldiers were merely escorting four visiting journalists, among them TIME Correspondent Jerrold Schecter. His report...
...Correspondent James Shepherd, for whom the conflict brought rather sharp memories of 1947 when he covered the opening shots in the Kashmir dispute, was the first reporter to reach the city of Amritsar after the major Indian thrust started there. At midweek, Tokyo Bureau Chief Jerrold Schecter covered the opening of Hello, Dolly! and then flew to India to join the war team...