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Nishi-Kawaguchi is a hardscrabble, working-class town on the outskirts of Tokyo. There are literally dozens of seen-better-days, commuter-line towns just like it dotting the sprawling megalopolis. Massage parlors, hostess clubs and soaplands line the streets around the dinky train station, and the odd reveler or two is still wandering around well into the morning, trying to shake off last night's indulgences or perhaps just waiting to resume them. It's the kind of place where disappointment is the default emotion and where Japan's much-hyped economic revival hasn't quite kicked in. "This...
...year-old Pakistani, is happy to chat about a possible backlash against Muslims due to the arrests, but he only has a few minutes: the 30-year resident of Japan, who runs a million-dollar used-car export business, says he has to be at the police station soon. No, he's not wanted for anything, or even questioning, he replies, simultaneously offended and amused at the suggestion. He requested the meeting with the police, he says, because he's concerned that the arrested men have already been convicted of being terrorists by the media before they have had their...
...destination five or six miles inland was Douvres-la-Delivrande; our primary objective was the radar station, then the school, which had to be cleared for an HQ. The night before, I handed the men cards to write out their last will and testament, and a little note that could be sent to their parents without being censored (we would be away by the time they got them). I also gave the men 40 francs each. We studied everything thoroughly, over and over again. I told them that if anyone was hit, you don't pick him up, there were...
...Douvres-la-Delivrande we checked out a school and ensured it was free of booby traps so it could be used as a brigade HQ. My next job was to go to the radar station--a concrete blockhouse, a huge hexagon with apertures all round. The Germans were inside, but the Royal Marine Commandos were outside. We went on to Hermanville, which was on the main road to Caen. When we arrived it was 5 p.m. We had been up since 3 a.m. We dug a trench at the corner of a field and slept...
...transit authority. "The wide-open spaces and the freedom we have enjoyed to meander almost anywhere is gone." Urban train buffs report being surrounded by police cars and customs agents. A Haverford College student of South Asian descent was detained last year by SEPTA police after he photographed a station--homework for an urban-history class, as it turned...