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...probably still called anti-American in Japan, but they misunderstand me," Tsuru Shigeto '35, visiting lecturer in Economics, declared as he attempted to clarify his political position following his appearance before Senate investigators last month...
...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...
...Japanese magazines and newspapers Tsuru has criticized American H-bomb testing in the Pacific, restrictions on Japanese trade with Red China, and "America's over-eagerness to expedite Japan's rearmament." He noted that his criticism had been directed toward specific policies, and expressed admiration for the American people and culture...
...Tsuru swore several times, in response to direct questions, that he had never joined the Communist party either in the United States or in Japan...
...Tsuru testified that he had been criticized in Japan during the post-war period as "anti-American," but he stated that, despite his criticism of U.S. policies, "I am not anti-American...