Japan Airlines Research Articles

Japan: The Year of "Money-Power" Politics

Research Article| January 01 1975 Japan: The Year of "Money-Power" Politics Chalmers Johnson Chalmers Johnson Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1946) 15 (1): 25–34. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643427 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Chalmers Johnson; Japan: The Year of "Money-Power" Politics. Far Eastern Survey 16 January 1946; 15 (1): 25–34. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2643427 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAsian Survey Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1975 Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Taiwan: Protective Adjustment Economy

Research Article| January 01 1975 Taiwan: Protective Adjustment Economy Peter P. Cheng Peter P. Cheng Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1946) 15 (1): 20–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643426 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Peter P. Cheng; Taiwan: Protective Adjustment Economy. Far Eastern Survey 16 January 1946; 15 (1): 20–24. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2643426 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentAsian Survey Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1975 Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Terrorism at Tel Aviv Airport and a "New Left" Group in Japan

On May 30, 1972, three young Japanese men who had boarded an Air France jetliner at Rome arrived at Lod International Airport at Tel Aviv, Israel. At about 10:30 p.m., they suddenly began to hurl grenades toward milling crowd in custom house and opened fire from submachine guns which they had calmly removed from their luggage and assembled. Twentysix persons, including one internationally renowned medical physicist, Aharon Katchalsky of University of California at Berkeley, were killed, and more than seventy were wounded in assault. Although two of terrorists perished, one of them shot by his comrade, third, later identified as Kozo Okamoto, 24 year old agriculture student at Kagoshima University, was arrested by Israeli police. The incident, according to reports from Tel Aviv, was perpetrated by members of extreme leftist group in Japan known as Reng5 Sekigun (the United Red or URA). Okamoto testified before Israeli military tribunal at Rishon le Zion that the attack was carried out in partnership between Red of Japan and Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). And that Japanese collaboration with Arab organization was a means of propelling ourselves on world stage, in order to prepare for the creation of world Red Army which would then implement world revolution.' Okamoto's justification for collaboration with PFLP clearly reflects ideology of Red Army, which I will examine later. Although Japanese police have found no evidence that Okamoto was member of Red Army, Okamoto was evidently influenced by his two brothers, both of whom were members of extremist groups. One of them, as leader of Red Faction (one of two groups composing URA), was among highj ackers who successfully forced Japan airlines pilot to go to Pyongyang, North Korea, in March 1970. Furthermore, Okamoto had arranged for showing of film on Red Army-PFLP World War Declaration when activists of Red came to Kagoshima University in November 1971.2 Therefore it is clear that Okamoto was at least psychologically and

Japan: New Diplomatic Horizons, Old-Style Domestic Politics

Diplomacy dominated the efforts of the Japanese Government this past year. Prime Minister Sato and Foreign Minister Miki sought to expand Japan's international role by embarking on a series of trips to engage in personal diplomacy. Sato traveled to Seoul at the beginning of July for two days of talks with President Park and Vice-President Humphrey. Miki attended the second ASPAC (Asian and Pacific Association) Ministerial Conference in Bangkok a few days later. From July 20-25, Miki was in Moscow for the first of what will be regularly scheduled Soviet-Japanese consultations. Sato thereupon visited Taiwan during the first week of September. He followed up that visit with two extensive trips to Southeast Asia and Oceania-Burma, Malaysia, Thailand and Laos' in late September, and Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and South Vietnam in mid-October. Ultimately both he and Miki made the hegira to Washington, D.C. Lesser-known Japanese political leaders also traveled extensively. If nothing else, it was a good year for Japan Air Lines. It is too early to render a definitive judgment on the meaning of these travels. Clues might be found in the records of the Foreign Ministry Conference held in Hakone in mid-April, but it will be some time before the contents are available. It would almost appear that Japan's political leaders may have been seeking to catch up with their businessmen compatriots who are ceaseless in their search for new markets. Their efforts and those of the Japanese workers have boosted Japan's Gross National Product to fourth place among the world's industrial powers, no mean achievement considering the devastated state of Japan's industrial plant twenty years ago. Nonetheless, political acumen and unity of effort on matters of foreign policy have not yet equalled the increasing sophistication of Japan's traders. Japan's indecisiveness concerning the international role she could or would play, insofar as fundamental differences between the basically proAmerican Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) and the basically neutralist Japan Socialist Party (JSP) are concerned, have become so well known that they are not in need of further exposition. Even within the LDP, however, some discordant strains at the highest policy-making levels have become noticeable. Sato's trips had the appearance of being primarily aimed at laying

The Flying Spacewatchers

From the cockpit of his United Airlines DC-8, en route from Chicago to Seattle at 37,000 feet, Capt. Homer Peterson first saw a broad vapor trail, much wider than that of a plane, just above the western horizon. Then he saw that the vapor was led by a glowing reddish-white object, followed by a flaming tail. Suddenly the object exploded like buckshot, each piece trailing fire. Spectacular though the explosion was, it did not take Capt. Peterson by surprise. About three hours before, he had received a TIP (Tracking and Impact Prediction) from the North American Air Defense Command, through his airline's operations office. The TIP had warned him to be on the lookout for a man-made object that nized reporting was done by United; then the field was opened up. Today 68 airlines make up the net, 50 of them outside the U.S. Only five major airlines in the world do not belong to the chain, one of which is Russia's Aeroflot, which wrote last year that it was waiting for the Soviet Academy of Sciences to decide whether such a project is as valuable as it is cracked up to be. The other holdouts are Trans World Airlines, Japan Air Lines, Scandinavian Air Service and Air France. Still under Roth's direction, VFON now represents almost 30,000 flight crew members who fly almost two million miles of air routes, most of them unduplicated. There have been 41 reports submitted on 14 reentering space objects (at least half of them Russian), wire and all radio reception-but, strangely, not transmission-cut out. The pilot who reported the sighting has been guaranteed anonymity by both VFON and Dr. Condon-a necessity if the network is going to receive any UFO reports at all. It's a matter of regaining the pilots' trust, Roth says. Besides the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the University of Colorado, VFON sends data of various kinds to the Environmental Science Services Administration, Northwestern University, the University of Arizona and a saucer-spotting organization called the National Investigations Committee for Aerial Phenomena. Even the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is interested; last month Roth briefed a space agency team