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      Foreign Correspondents in Japan

       The Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan

      FOREIGN

       CORRESPONDENTS

       IN JAPAN

      Reporting a Half Century of Upheavals: From 1945 to the Present

      Charles Pomeroy, General Editor

      CHARLES E. TUTTLE COMPANY

       Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan

      Published by Charles E. Tuttle Publishing,

       an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.

      ©1998 by Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan

      All rights reserved

      LCC Card No. 98-86781

       ISBN 978-1-4629-0194-4

      First edition, 1998

      Printed in Singapore

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       Contents

      Acknowledgments...vii

      Preface...ix

      Introduction by Frank Gibney...xii

      Part One by Day Inoshita...2 The Occupation and the Korean War Years, 1945-1954

      Part Two by Jack Russell...92 The Age of Student Unrest and the Tokyo Olympics, 1955-1964

      Part Three by Swadesh R. DeRoy...150 Vietnam, the Opening of China, and the Okinawan Reversion, 1965-1974

      Part Four by Robert Neff...214 The Fall of Saigon and the Height of the Cold War, 1975-1984

      Part Five by Patrick J. Killen...280 The Bubble Years and the Evolution of the Global Media Age, 1985-1995

      Afterword...360

      Index...363

       Acknowledgments

      Compiling a book covering more than fifty years of history requires a great deal of cooperation from a large number of people. It is impossible to list everyone, but our thanks go to all FCCJ members, past and present, who contributed in some way to this book, even if by no more than mentioning a name, an event, or a popular song from days gone by.

      More specifically, in addition to the key people mentioned in the Preface-Day Inoshita, Jack Russell, Swadesh DeRoy, Bob Neff, Pat Killen, Kay Tateishi, and Frank Gibney, who incidentally provided interactive support for each other-we would like to thank the following people for their contributions.

      Former presidents of the FCCJ who responded to our queries and to our requests for comments on their administrations, anecdotes, photos, and other materials are Rutherford M. Poats, Earnest Hoberecht, John Rich, John Roderick, Lee Chia, Buddy Cohen, Al Kaff, Max Desfor, Al Cullison, Bruce Dunning, Bill Shinn, Mike Tharp, Naoaki Usui, Andrew Horvat, Lew Simons, Pierre Brisard, Mack Chrysler, Ken Ishii, David Powers, Bruce MacDonell, Peter McGill, and Jim Lagier. Al Cullison and Bruce Dunning also reviewed manuscripts and others, especially AI Kaff, provided a lode of anecdotes and photos.

      Members with long memories who contributed to the book are Ian Mutsu, Ray Falk, Ron Yates, Henry Scott-Stokes, Jean Pearce, Corky Alexander, Hal Drake, Roger Shreffler, Gregory Clark, Boye De Mente, Rudolph Voll, John Brady, Bob Kirschenbaum, George Purdy, Ernest Salomon, Ken Urushibara, and Shig Fujita. Former members who made important contributions are Ed Hoffman, Carl Mydans, Jim Colligan, Bob Miller, Denis Warner, Ed White, Richard Hanson, and Sam Jones, a life member who unfortunately died in early 1998 before he could see the result of his efforts. Deserving special mention is Don Kirk, for his contribution on the Club's baseball team, the Alley Cats.

      And former staff who saw much of it happen and deserve our special thanks for corroborating and providing much interesting detail are Mary Ushijima, Kotaro Washida, Mr. Ling, and the late Jimmy Horikawa, who died in 1997. Present staff, too, assisted greatly in getting the materials together for this endeavor. The office, library, and front desk staff in general, under the direction of our general manager, Kenji Katayama, were positive in their assistance. More specifically, Nobuyoshi Yamada, a thirty-eight-year veteran, should be noted for his sharp memory and research services, and Jonathan Wentworth for facilitating communications by converting files from Mac versions into Windows versions and vice versa.

      Finally, we would like to acknowledge the assistance of Susan Pompian, the support of the Charles E. Tuttle Publishing Company, and the invaluable help of Winston Priest, which enabled us to bring this book to successful completion.

       Preface

      Somehow the half-century mark seems the time for people to get serious about recording histories of organizations special to them. It's when notice is taken of the dwindling number of those with direct knowledge of the early years and anecdotal memories of an institution. So it was with the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan in December of 1996, a year after the Club's fiftieth anniversary and following a memorial evening when we honored four members who had died during that year. Our then president, Will Dawkins of the Financial Times, in response to my lament on the dwindling few and lack of a historical