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so that the faithful soul of Hachiko will never go hungry.
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Tokyo is full of these tiny legends, and of mediating animals.
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The Mitsukoshi lion stands guard on the frontiers of what was once
the empire of Mr. Okadaa great collector of French paintings,
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the man who hired the Château of Versailles to celebrate
the hundredth anniversary of his department stores.
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In the computer section I've seen young Japanese
exercising their brain muscles like the young Athenians at the Palaistra.
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They have a war to win.
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The history books of the future will perhaps place the battle of integrated circuits
at the same level as Salamis and Agincourt,
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but willing to honor the unfortunate adversary by leaving other fields to him:
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men's fashions this season are placed under the sign of John Kennedy.
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Like an old votive turtle stationed in the corner of a field,
every day he saw Mr. Akao
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the president of the Japanese Patriotic Party
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trumpeting from the heights of his rolling balcony
against the international communist plot.
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He wrote me:
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the automobiles of the extreme right with their flags and megaphones
are part of Tokyo's landscape
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Mr. Akao is their focal point.
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I think he'll have his statue like the dog Hachiko,
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at this crossroads from which he departs
only to go and prophesy on the battlefields.