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...other Japanese student, Shunsuke Tsurumi '43, says "I...expected Japan to be the aggressor because of the psychological condition of the people." Tsurumi, who majors in philosophy, is "not concerned in worldly affairs." He is sentimental about the people in Japan,, "but I am not as affected by this situation as people suppose...
Edmund B. Spaeth Jr. '42, Philadelphia, Pa.; Byron W. Steele Jr. '43, Mullens, W. Va.; Lester h. Tobin '42, New York, N.Y.; Shunsuke Tsurumi '43, Tokyo Japan; Theodore B. Van Itallie '42, Ridgewood...
Trombone for this blast was the Pacific, official organ of a pseudo-liberal Japanese organization called the Institute of the Pacific.* The Institute is dominated by a dynamic, humorous politician named Yusuke Tsurumi, who can write 14,000 Japanese characters by hand in one day and can talk English faster than the late Floyd Gibbons could. The Institute was probably one of the chief catalytics last September in the appointment as Foreign Minister of Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura. Such an outfit is worth listening to. It said...
...first day of the conference 46 Japanese and 76 U. S. and Canadian students met in the Reed College chapel, squirmed in the pews while the speakers talked of nothing but war. Japanese Consul Ken Tsurumi tried to strike an optimistic note: "I do not consider a U. S.-Japanese war inevitable." Glad when the assembly was over, the Japanese delegates wanted first to see the unemployed. Back on the campus they settled down to talk of foreign trade, Manchuria, Communism, dictatorship, missionaries...
During this ceremonious interval, Baron Tanaka has unquestionably played politics with bribes and blandishments. The result appeared to be, last week, that Deputy Yusuke Tsurumi and his balance-of-power faction are now heart and soul for the Prime Minister. Furthermore moneyed Baron Tanaka has persuaded 29 of the Minseito opposition Deputies to bolt their party under Takejiro Tokonami and set themselves up as soi-disant independents. This reduces the effective strength of the Minseito opposition to 185, making certain supremacy for the Prime Minister...