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"Japan is really Mrs. Everyman..."
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and her daughters, saving...
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Mr. Everyman by bursting
the paper wall...
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Mr. Everyman explains how to...
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look like a Japanese and...
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thus impress those wild
and not very...
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civilised people.
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Mrs. Everyman replies that...
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for savages, they look...
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remarkably civilised.
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Meanwhile, Mr. Everyman,
seeing more people...
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looking even more Japanese...
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is reassured.
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Mrs. Everyman sees...
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soldiers parading
in European uniform.
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She smiles ironically.
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But now a number
of typical Japanese...
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walk into the house.
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Her irony disappears.
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And Mr. Everyman is not ashamed
to admit...
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he is mystified.
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This is Etienne Lalou speaking from Tokyo.
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The 18th Olympic Games
began with a bow.
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Emperor Hirohito bowed to the flags
of the nations.
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Japan was waiting for the Games in 1940.
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But not the same Japan.
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Japan did not make
transistors then...
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and Emperors did not bow.
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Kumiko Muraoka, over 20,
but less than 30...
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born in Manchuria, hates lies.
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Attended Franco-Japanese school.
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Hates electric typewriters
and girl-chasers.
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Met her by accident
in Tokyo during the games.
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Kumiko is not a typical Japanese-
if there is such a thing.
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Nor a typical girl,
nor a modern girl.
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She is not an example of anything.
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Either class or race.
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Not like any other women.
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She is like women who are different.
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Which is something.
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She lives from day to day.
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She is amased to find herself
starring in a film.
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She is well aware...
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that she won't make history.
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Nevertheless...
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she is history just like...
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you, me and the Pope.
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And Japan is all around her.
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Visitors to Tokyo for the Games...
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don't forget
the Dreamland Fun Park.
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The big wheel and other sensations.
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Its picturesque European village.
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Tokyo, 11 October.
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The leading Tokyo gang leaders.
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Have ordered their gangs...
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to cease all activities
during the games.
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Harvard student Peter Kassovitz...
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is making a sociological study on
Tokyo telephone habits.
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He wants to find out...
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How many 'phone kiosks there are?
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How many people use them?
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But above all...
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to whom they telephone?
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Is making a survey...
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on photography in Japan.
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Her main headings are...
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The Statistical Institute...
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gives the results of a survey.
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To the question:
"What makes life worth living?"
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8% replied: "Family life".
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24% replied: Children.
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15%: Work. 6%: Earning money.
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4%: Enjoying life.
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21%: LIFE IS NOT WORTH LIVING.
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Atheists were asked if religion
was important.
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77% replied yes.
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Asked if they believed
in afterlife...
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20% replied yes. 59% replied no.
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9% did not know,
and 12% were not sure.
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Tokyo, 17 October.
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9 students were arrested
for protesting...
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against the visit of American
atomic submarines.
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The Mainicht News reported
that the demonstration was quiet.
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And did not attract much attention.
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People were watching
the Games on TV.
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Japanese wrestler, Sunichi Kawano, 27...
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was run out of his village after
losing against the Iranian Resa.
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Kuwano's manager accused him
of lacking fight.
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Adding that his attitude was liable
to demoralize the Japanese team.
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Between pictures, Kumiko and I talk.
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Difficult sometimes...
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if only because of her way...
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of speaking French.
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But we talk.
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You say you're not completely Japanese?
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I am completely Japanese by race...
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and in spirit?
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I'm all mixed up.
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Much too much mixed up.
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What was the cause of that?
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Being born in Manchuria?
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In a sense, yes.
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At what age did you come to Japan?
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I was ten.
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I was quite a foreigner
to the country.
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How do you feel now?
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You don't feel a foreigner any more?
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I must be Japanese now.
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I can't get rid of the Japanese spirit.
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What is the Japanese spirit?
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Japanese life.
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How d'you mean, Japanese life?
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I mean living as a Japanese...
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living in Japan.
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How is that different from living
in France, say?
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Or America?
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Well, first there's the air.
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What about the air?
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It's wet.
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Asahi Shimbun of 20 October...
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gave an article on ladies'
dress shops.
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Visitors to Japan are always struck...
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by the models in shop windows.
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They all look like Europeans.
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The author denied this was aping
the West.
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But failed to find
a convincing answer.
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And the question remains:
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Why are Japanese dresses...
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shown on snub-nosed blondes?
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I don't trouble much about models.
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But some of them are white.
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Oh well, I suppose it's just
to show off the dresses.
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Okay. But look at the magazines.
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Nothing but adverts
for making eyes bigger...
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making noses narrower-
and other things.
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All that is not just to make
you look Japanese.
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Well, I suppose it's the fashion.
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People in Japan no longer like
completely Japanese faces.
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My face, for example,
is completely Japanese, it's...
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Absolutely.
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Out of fashion?
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Very much so.
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I ought to have been born
very much earlier...
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In the Helan period.
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Nowadays, in Japan, people like
the sort of face that is funny.
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"Funny-face", they call them.
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I like them too, very much.
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Isn't your face funny?
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I don't know, but anyhow...
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Think it's serious?
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I don't, frankly.
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My face is very Japanese.
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Yes, no doubt about that.
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Haven't you noticed,
when you smile...
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all that wrinkles up...
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at the same time. Did you know?
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Winkles?
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No! Wrinkles.
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Pretty wrinkles
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"General de Gaulle is continuing..."
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And the Olympic Games...
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Interested?
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I don't know.
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Don't you read the papers?
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Haven't you heard about Kruchev
- The Chinese bomb?
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The elections in England?
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The satellite with three fellows in it.
And everything?
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Oh yes, I know. There are a lot
of things going on.
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And what do they mean to you?
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Nothing?
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For instance,
when you heard Kruchev...
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had retired on account
of ill health...
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were you amused-worried-
interested?
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Or indifferent?
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I'm often surprised at things
that happen...
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in Communist countries.
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Surprised?
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You're not the only one.
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The Vatican Council
is continuing in Rome.
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Pope Paul VI has announced
his intention of going to Bombay.
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It will be the first time
a Pope has gone to Asia.
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What do you expect of life?
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It's difficult to say...
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The trouble is I want
so many things-and so few.
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Begin with the few.
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Looking, getting to know, listening.
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So many things!
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So very many things!
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You want a lot in your head?
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Yes, but everything's
all so mixed up!
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That's my great misfortune.
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A misfortune not to have
an ordered brain?
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It's like a box of games,
complicated...
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all in disorder.
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A few things-many things.
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Things, things, things.
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Aren't all heads like that?
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D' you know people
with ordered minds?
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I don't think so.
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But nearly all people of my age...
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seem to be able to manage.
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Manage-or pretend to manage?
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Or do they manage because
they don't worry?
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They've found the way.
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To what?
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Why-the way how to live!
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What I need is to live.
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And if I asked you why?
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Don't ask me why.
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Tokyo, 25 October.
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After a plucky fight, Gonzalés
was beaten by the Russian Lagutin.
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No gold medal for France this time.
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A good thing we have a few horses.
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Tomorrow, all will be over.
50,610 visitors will leave.
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(as also will the Prime Minister,
who has just resigned)
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And Tokyo will start recovering
from the Games.
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I was the 50,610th.
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I returned to Paris...
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leaving a questionnaire
with Kumiko...
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just on the off-chance.
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She replied-Japanese fashion-
on recorded tape.
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Letters 35 min wide
and 180 meters long...
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replying to all my questions.
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Why do some cats bow?
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I personally don't know.
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But you're asking me why.
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So I went and found a bowing cat,
and asked him.
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And this is what he said:
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"Where can you find bowing cats?
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I've never seen one".
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So obviously he doesn't know why.
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Do you like animals?
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I never hate animals.
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I get on well with them...
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providing they're not too big.
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Or too strange.
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Dogs are faithful-much too faithful.
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I like cats better.
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Especially when you look into
a cat's eyes...
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they're so suspicious.
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And when I am not quite sure
whether to be kind or cruel...
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my heart torn between them...
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I see the same doubt
in the cat's eyes.
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When I was a child,
I had some chicks..
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A tiny hare that had lost
its mother...
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and some white cats with blue eyes.
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The chicks ran too fast...
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following me through the garden.
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When night fell, they cried...
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with sadness at leaving me.
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The hare drank the milk I gave him...
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and slept in my bed.
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They all trusted me very much...
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and I loved them too much.
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One morning, I found all
the chicks were dead.
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They had frozen to death
during the night.
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And the poor little hare!
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I killed him accidentally...
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by stepping on him.
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The cats died too.
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Never again will I live with animals.
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All the same, when cats rub against
my legs in the street...
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or a black that looks
at me through the window...
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perhaps she's thirsty.
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Or sometimes hungry.
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And one day,
whern I came across a thin dog...
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I miouwed without knowing it.
268
00:27:14,833 --> 00:27:16,500
And he miowed back.
269
00:27:19,166 --> 00:27:20,666
I laughed so much!
270
00:27:21,333 --> 00:27:24,208
Do you see Japanese beauty
as we do?
271
00:27:24,666 --> 00:27:25,750
And Japanese children?
272
00:27:36,083 --> 00:27:37,333
It's unbelievable...
273
00:27:37,999 --> 00:27:43,583
the violence and tenderness
inspired in others by beauty.
274
00:27:44,208 --> 00:27:46,458
And I cannot imagine...
275
00:27:47,083 --> 00:27:51,124
how you see Japanese beauty-
or Japanese children.
276
00:27:52,625 --> 00:27:56,208
Beautiful Japanese children
are beautiful for me too.
277
00:27:56,874 --> 00:27:59,792
They may well represent
Japanese beauty.
278
00:28:06,792 --> 00:28:10,832
But when I look at beautiful
European children...
279
00:28:11,458 --> 00:28:16,583
I understand how it was
you discovered angels.
280
00:28:17,208 --> 00:28:19,583
For that's exactly what they are.
281
00:28:20,792 --> 00:28:22,832
No matter how beautiful they are...
282
00:28:23,291 --> 00:28:26,166
Japanese children are never angels.
283
00:28:31,958 --> 00:28:34,874
It's the same with the eyes...
284
00:28:35,333 --> 00:28:37,916
the timid Asian eyes...
285
00:28:38,500 --> 00:28:40,958
always trying to hide something.
286
00:28:41,541 --> 00:28:45,541
European eyes are like lakes.
287
00:28:45,958 --> 00:28:48,498
Tempting and drowning.
288
00:28:49,124 --> 00:28:51,041
Each people has its beauty.
289
00:28:51,791 --> 00:28:56,958
How amazing it is that European
eyes are usually colored!
290
00:28:59,583 --> 00:29:02,874
I wonder who invented blue eyes.
291
00:29:06,291 --> 00:29:07,874
And Japanese men?
292
00:29:10,083 --> 00:29:12,874
Men were the mirrors in which...
293
00:29:13,208 --> 00:29:15,916
I could see my own face.
294
00:29:16,916 --> 00:29:21,375
I was astonished when I understood
that I was living in their eyes.
295
00:29:21,749 --> 00:29:23,458
The witnesses of my life.
296
00:29:25,166 --> 00:29:27,375
They never criticize me...
297
00:29:27,791 --> 00:29:31,250
or look for the faults in my face.
298
00:29:31,749 --> 00:29:36,291
They seem to be looking at
me through a frosted window.
299
00:29:37,749 --> 00:29:40,208
Why were they always so kind...
300
00:29:40,832 --> 00:29:43,333
and always so generous...
301
00:29:43,791 --> 00:29:47,916
whereas a real mirror
never forgives me?
302
00:29:49,707 --> 00:29:51,208
There are myths...
303
00:29:51,542 --> 00:29:55,500
and the past in a mirror,
and it is proud of them.
304
00:29:57,874 --> 00:30:00,667
It is cold and cruel...
305
00:30:01,083 --> 00:30:04,041
and it keeps silent forever.
306
00:30:08,542 --> 00:30:11,416
But men-those opaque windows...
307
00:30:12,707 --> 00:30:15,166
they are always speaking to me.
308
00:30:15,667 --> 00:30:18,124
They make dates with me.
309
00:30:18,749 --> 00:30:21,916
Then they ask for another date.
310
00:30:22,208 --> 00:30:24,041
I tell them proudly:
311
00:30:25,291 --> 00:30:28,333
"What about life? You talk too fast".
312
00:30:29,874 --> 00:30:33,999
But I was afraid-
afraid all the same.
313
00:30:34,749 --> 00:30:37,250
Afraid of kindness...
314
00:30:37,583 --> 00:30:39,458
afraid of men...
315
00:30:39,749 --> 00:30:41,583
afraid of life.
316
00:30:43,291 --> 00:30:46,208
But I listened to them and smiled.
317
00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:50,166
I laughed in order to thank them.
318
00:30:50,458 --> 00:30:52,250
And I got tired of them.
319
00:31:03,999 --> 00:31:05,707
I've been to Japan.
320
00:31:06,045 --> 00:31:08,174
I've never been to Japan.
321
00:31:12,542 --> 00:31:14,416
I- like-Tokyo.
322
00:31:14,874 --> 00:31:16,542
Just a lot of barbarians.
323
00:31:16,874 --> 00:31:18,958
Tradition! Everybody has tradition.
324
00:31:22,041 --> 00:31:25,333
Of the Samurai-the barbarians.
325
00:33:47,499 --> 00:33:49,916
According to the Statistical Institute...
326
00:33:50,250 --> 00:33:52,963
the Japanese are hard-working.
327
00:33:53,375 --> 00:33:55,874
Polite, idealistic, frank, gay,
328
00:33:56,250 --> 00:33:57,375
rational and original.
329
00:33:57,791 --> 00:33:59,333
I saw myself quite...
330
00:33:59,749 --> 00:34:01,791
Just wait for the defects:
331
00:34:02,294 --> 00:34:04,874
Irritability, rapid loss
of enthusiasm,
332
00:34:05,375 --> 00:34:08,197
Insular, love of imitation,
333
00:34:08,297 --> 00:34:09,821
Inplacability, meanness,
334
00:34:10,348 --> 00:34:11,347
Pride and cruelty.
335
00:34:17,541 --> 00:34:22,371
So part of the Japanese character
is related to Sadism?
336
00:34:44,833 --> 00:34:48,083
These magazines and films
full of tied up women...
337
00:34:52,749 --> 00:34:54,041
and violence for violence.
338
00:35:03,038 --> 00:35:05,325
Never a sign of love-only violence.
339
00:35:07,171 --> 00:35:09,874
The image of violence.
340
00:35:10,375 --> 00:35:14,375
That's something much easier
for me to understand.
341
00:35:15,833 --> 00:35:19,541
Violence was born with
the history of mankind.
342
00:35:19,876 --> 00:35:25,041
It is bound up with the birth
and life of humanity.
343
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:29,666
It's a natural force.
344
00:35:30,041 --> 00:35:33,791
There is no need to make any effort
about violence.
345
00:35:36,499 --> 00:35:38,374
It's a mere nothing.
346
00:35:38,708 --> 00:35:41,041
I'm not afraid of it.
347
00:35:41,916 --> 00:35:46,666
I would never be wounded
by the thought of violence.
348
00:35:46,958 --> 00:35:51,916
I would merely die.
If I didn't, why, I would live.
349
00:35:55,500 --> 00:35:56,499
Love and tenderness.
350
00:35:58,624 --> 00:36:02,000
They're intellect-
and understanding.
351
00:36:03,208 --> 00:36:05,208
Something infinite-
352
00:36:06,541 --> 00:36:09,624
Severe and delicate like
the feeling in your hand,
353
00:36:09,958 --> 00:36:12,624
which tells you you have nerve cells.
354
00:36:15,083 --> 00:36:19,208
They're something finer-
and more profound.
355
00:36:19,708 --> 00:36:22,250
They're my only reason for living.
356
00:36:22,659 --> 00:36:24,125
The hope of my life.
357
00:36:25,875 --> 00:36:28,791
The only things worth dying for.
358
00:39:33,101 --> 00:39:36,666
Here is your horoscope.
359
00:39:37,083 --> 00:39:41,249
You will have lots of luck in life.
360
00:39:42,333 --> 00:39:44,625
But do not try...
361
00:39:44,958 --> 00:39:48,207
to get ahead too fast.
362
00:39:48,607 --> 00:39:50,953
Above all, obey...
363
00:39:51,419 --> 00:39:54,359
your superiors.
364
00:39:55,333 --> 00:39:56,572
Never turn against...
365
00:39:57,064 --> 00:39:59,658
your superiors.
366
00:40:00,042 --> 00:40:03,583
I don't think that the Japanese
of today believe in horoscopes.
367
00:40:05,042 --> 00:40:08,875
Then why do you see so many
fortune-tellers?
368
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:12,499
I suppose they act as a sort
of catalyst...
369
00:40:14,458 --> 00:40:16,207
for talking with yourself.
370
00:40:17,207 --> 00:40:19,791
From time to time everybody...
371
00:40:20,499 --> 00:40:22,708
needs to talk to himself.
372
00:40:23,666 --> 00:40:26,705
Actually, fortune-tellers
don't tell you anything.
373
00:40:27,458 --> 00:40:30,791
They ask questions, listen,
and then speak.
374
00:40:31,875 --> 00:40:34,207
As for the older generation...
375
00:40:34,541 --> 00:40:38,666
who probably believed
in horoscopes and so on...
376
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:41,416
they all prayed to Gods they knew.
377
00:40:41,791 --> 00:40:44,708
They had trust in their wisdom.
378
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,708
They asked God for an authentic sign.
379
00:42:36,500 --> 00:42:39,124
There still remained one question...
380
00:42:39,500 --> 00:42:41,708
to which Kumiko had started
to reply...
381
00:42:42,041 --> 00:42:45,041
one night returning from Yokohama...
382
00:42:45,374 --> 00:42:47,708
with me in the driving rain.
383
00:42:48,541 --> 00:42:50,708
But what d'you think of...
384
00:42:56,917 --> 00:43:01,208
Did it have an influence on what
could happen to you, Kumiko?
385
00:43:02,291 --> 00:43:05,208
Or did it all happen
in another world?
386
00:43:05,583 --> 00:43:07,166
A world which was not yours?
387
00:43:09,333 --> 00:43:12,500
Oh no, it could happen to me too.
388
00:43:15,583 --> 00:43:19,541
It's like a wave. Like a wave.
389
00:43:19,875 --> 00:43:21,999
A wave rolling over the sea.
390
00:43:22,333 --> 00:43:24,208
The wave on the sea?
391
00:43:43,874 --> 00:43:47,041
Always, every day and every night...
392
00:43:47,416 --> 00:43:50,208
every morning, always...
393
00:43:50,583 --> 00:43:52,833
something is happening...
394
00:43:53,124 --> 00:43:55,208
it doesn't matter what.
395
00:43:55,625 --> 00:44:00,666
Things go on happening one by one,
throughout the line of history.
396
00:44:01,541 --> 00:44:05,166
But for me, they're just
the morning's rubbish...
397
00:44:05,541 --> 00:44:08,625
thrown out of the door.
398
00:44:16,668 --> 00:44:19,370
When I was a small child...
399
00:44:19,958 --> 00:44:22,374
I lived by what I tasted with
my tongue...
400
00:44:23,376 --> 00:44:27,108
or by the pleasant odours
which I smelt.
401
00:44:29,291 --> 00:44:34,625
At the very same time
mankind was beginning to suffer.
402
00:44:35,708 --> 00:44:40,041
Men went off to war,
and were made prisoners.
403
00:44:40,375 --> 00:44:43,041
They resisted and cried.
404
00:44:43,375 --> 00:44:46,873
They wept, and human flesh
was mutilatted.
405
00:44:48,792 --> 00:44:54,375
And yet, when I learn about all
this today, I am astonished...
406
00:44:54,708 --> 00:44:58,792
that I didn't know of it for
a long time.
407
00:45:19,375 --> 00:45:21,541
I am surprised every morning.
408
00:45:21,958 --> 00:45:24,166
I am astonished how little
I understand.
409
00:45:25,583 --> 00:45:27,708
I cannot speak about anything.
410
00:45:28,291 --> 00:45:33,625
But soon, the results of all these
happenings will arrive.
411
00:45:34,625 --> 00:45:37,958
Like a wave rolling over the sea...
412
00:45:38,583 --> 00:45:42,208
when there has been an earthquake
in the distance.
413
00:45:42,625 --> 00:45:44,667
No matter how far away it was...
414
00:45:45,583 --> 00:45:48,916
the wave advances bit by bit...
415
00:45:49,208 --> 00:45:52,458
until finally it reaches me.
416
00:45:53,291 --> 00:45:57,041
"It reaches me".
That was Kumiko's last word.
417
00:45:57,708 --> 00:46:00,208
There are 50 million women
in Japan.
418
00:46:02,541 --> 00:46:04,102
And one and a half billion
in the world.
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