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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.
:37:20
Once upon a time I saw bonzes pray for peace in Vietnam there.
:37:24
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.
:37:48
On the other sidewalk the Left has the floor.
:37:50
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.
:37:59
A group has begun a hunger strike.
:38:01
Some very young militants are trying
to gather signatures in his support.

:38:46
I went back to Narita for the birthday of one of the victims of the struggle.
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The demo was unreal.
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I had the impression of acting in Brigadoon,
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of waking up ten years later in the midst of the same players,
with the same blue lobsters of police,


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