Word: tokyo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visitors, led by Daisuke Takaoka, conservative member of Japan's Diet, got red-carpet treatment all the way. General Lemnitzer himself flew down with them. Tokyo, genially wined and dined them at the plush Ryukyus Command Officers' Club. Scooting about the island in a fleet of khaki-colored Chevrolets escorted by white-helmeted MPs. the Japanese talked with everyone from the Communist mayor of Naha to farmers whose land had been requisitioned by the U.S. military. What they saw-new towns, new roads, new factories-was in great contrast to the derogatory stories that the jingoistic Japanese press...
With a sputter strongly reminiscent of Colonel Blimp, the U.S. State Department promptly asserted that Takaoka spoke for no one but himself and certainly not for the Japanese government. But Tokyo's Asahi Shim bun saw things differently. "The report," said Asahi, "is expected to build up public opinion behind Premier Kishi in his forthcoming talks in Washington. Kishi will certainly want to talk about Okinawa...
...Norman studied at universities in Canada, the U.S. and Britain, and became in his early 30s one of the world's ranking scholars on Japanese history and culture. He joined the Department of External Affairs in 1939, and the following year was assigned to the Canadian legation in Tokyo. The Japanese interned him at the time of Pearl Harbor, repatriated him the following year; he spent the rest of the war years at an Ottawa desk...
...were just easing when the charge of Communism fell anew on him. In Washington the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee called in John K. Emmerson, deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Beirut, questioned him about Norman and the 1951 Wittfogel charges. Emmerson, who had worked with Norman in Tokyo and the Middle East, told the committee he had no reason to think that Norman had ever been a Communist. When Committee Counsel Robert Morris released the testimony, there was a new flurry of news stories...
Tsuru testified to the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that "I acted like a Communist and spoke and wrote like a Communist," during pre-World War II years, while a student here. Now director of the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, he has returned to Harvard under the American-Japanese Intellectual Interchange Program...