(Around Tokyo)Mr. Tetsuya Tsukushi
Yesterday, they reported that Mr. Tetsuya Tsukushi died at the age of 73.
( http://mainichi.jp/select/jiken/graph/20071127/ )
He started to work as a newspaper reporter in 1958.
He started to work as a TV commentator in 1978.
Since then, he has been one of top journalists on TV.
He has been respected by many Japanese senior journalists, such as Mr. Takashi Tachibana who drove many politicians into a corner, Mr. Shuntaro Torigoe who even went out to Iraq to check the underground cell where Saddam Hussein had hidden, and Mr. Soichiro Tahara who is still very active on TV discussion programs.
Forty-five years ago when JFK was assassinated, Mr. Tsukushi was already working as a newspaper reporter in Japan. Accordingly he observed the subsequent assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy as a member of journalism. So, it is understandable that he would not try to pursue promotion in the management organization but stayed outside to be a leading (liberal) journalist, though there must have been many reporters who opted for career success even in those days.
In this context, Mr. Tetsuya Tsukushi was older than the Vietnam War generation; without doubt he was one of the "JFK-live" generation.
That is why he could so well build his career as a reporter and journalist through the Vietnam War era, getting to the colorful TV studio as a star anchorman when the Japanese economy was about to catch up with the American economy in late 1970's.
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Mr. Katsuhiko Shirakawa, a former Japanese lawmaker and state minister but presently notable critic, wrote in his blog that he was in Los Angeles when mysterious actress Marilyn Monroe died mysteriously.
( http://www.liberal-shirakawa.net/tsurezuregusa/index.php?itemid=817 )
Though at the time he was a high-school student in Japan, he got a chance to go and study in America. He lodged with a rich American family whose house was near the one where Marilyn Monroe died.
Mr. Shirakawa’s generation is younger than Mr. Tsukushi’s, but the former state-minister wrote that he has never forgotten the underlying racial barrier he experienced in the U.S. in early 1960’s though thereafter he travelled so many times to America as a national lawmaker of Japan, the second largest economy in the world.
And today Mr. Shirakawa wrote that there is no color on poverty (and thus Mr. Barack Obama won the election as he had expected).
(Now, we may be allowed to take up a funny song, since it is about a man who got drunk and killed by a car accident, but later found himself lying alive in the middle of a field since he was expelled out of Heaven.
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/j-folk1/yopparai.html )
Mat 11:8 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings' houses.
Mat 11:9 But what went ye out for to see? A prophet? yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet.