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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.
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He was at Narita in the sixties.
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Peasants fighting against the building of an airport on their land,
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and Mr. Akao denouncing the hand of Moscow
behind everything that moved.
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Yurakucho is the political space of Tokyo.
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Once upon a time I saw bonzes pray for peace in Vietnam there.
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Today young right-wing activists protest against the annexation
of the Northern Islands by the Russians.
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Sometimes they are answered that the commercial relations of Japan
with the abominable occupier of the North
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are a thousand times better than with the American ally
who is always whining about economic aggression.
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Ah, nothing is simple.
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On the other sidewalk the Left has the floor.
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The Korean Catholic opposition leader Kim Dae Jung
kidnapped in Tokyo in '73 by the South Korean gestapo
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is threatened with the death sentence.
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A group has begun a hunger strike.