A partial entry written late in a busy week, after reading a newspaper report on the death of Suzuki Kunio, then watching half of Belgrade 1999
======= The most difficult thing to understand, arriving in Japan, and trying to understand politics, is the question of why anti-Americanism seems not to animate any activism. The establishment right-wing at present seems captured by the same Cold War that the Americans implanted in the 1950s—the enemies are socialists and labor unions, China, and the …
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