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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, Gonzal�s
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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00:27:11,339 --> 00:27:15,635
And one day,
whern I came across a thin dog...
267
00:27:15,969 --> 00:27:18,138
... I miouwed without knowing it.
268
00:27:18,471 --> 00:27:20,140
And he miowed back.
269
00:27:22,809 --> 00:27:24,310
I laughed so much!
270
00:27:24,978 --> 00:27:27,856
Do you see Japanese beauty
as we do?
271
00:27:28,314 --> 00:27:29,399
And Japanese children?
272
00:27:39,743 --> 00:27:40,994
It's unbelievable...
273
00:27:41,661 --> 00:27:47,250
... the violence and tenderness
inspired in others by beauty.
274
00:27:47,876 --> 00:27:50,128
And I cannot imagine...
275
00:27:50,754 --> 00:27:54,799
... how you see Japanese beauty-
or Japanese children.
276
00:27:56,301 --> 00:27:59,888
Beautiful Japanese children
are beautiful for me too.
277
00:28:00,555 --> 00:28:03,475
They may well represent
Japanese beauty.
278
00:28:10,482 --> 00:28:14,527
But when I look at beautiful
European children...
279
00:28:15,153 --> 00:28:20,283
... I understand how it was
you discovered angels.
280
00:28:20,909 --> 00:28:23,286
For that's exactly what they are.
281
00:28:24,496 --> 00:28:26,539
No matter how beautiful they are...
282
00:28:26,998 --> 00:28:29,876
... Japanese children are never angels.
283
00:28:35,674 --> 00:28:38,593
It's the same with the eyes,...
284
00:28:39,052 --> 00:28:41,638
... the timid Asian eyes...
285
00:28:42,222 --> 00:28:44,683
... always trying to hide something.
286
00:28:45,266 --> 00:28:49,270
European eyes are like lakes.
287
00:28:49,688 --> 00:28:52,230
... tempting and drowning.
288
00:28:52,857 --> 00:28:54,776
Each people has its beauty.
289
00:28:55,527 --> 00:29:00,699
How amazing it is that European
eyes are usually coloured!
290
00:29:03,326 --> 00:29:06,621
I wonder who invented blue eyes.
291
00:29:10,041 --> 00:29:11,626
And Japanese men?
292
00:29:13,837 --> 00:29:16,631
Men were the mirrors in which...
293
00:29:16,965 --> 00:29:19,676
... I could see my own face.
294
00:29:20,677 --> 00:29:25,140
I was astonished when I understood
that I was living in their eyes.
295
00:29:25,515 --> 00:29:27,225
The witnesses of my life.
296
00:29:28,935 --> 00:29:31,146
They never criticise me...
297
00:29:31,563 --> 00:29:35,025
... or look for the faults in my face.
298
00:29:35,525 --> 00:29:40,071
They seem to be looking at
me through a frosted window.
299
00:29:41,531 --> 00:29:43,992
Why were they always so kind...
300
00:29:44,617 --> 00:29:47,120
... and always so generous...
301
00:29:47,579 --> 00:29:51,708
... whereas a real mirror
never forgives me?
302
00:29:53,501 --> 00:29:55,003
There are myths...
303
00:29:55,337 --> 00:29:59,299
... and the past in a mirror,
and it is proud of them.
304
00:30:01,676 --> 00:30:04,471
It is cold and cruel...
305
00:30:04,888 --> 00:30:07,849
... and it keeps silent forever.
306
00:30:12,354 --> 00:30:15,231
But men- those opaque windows...
307
00:30:16,524 --> 00:30:18,985
... they are always speaking to me.
308
00:30:19,486 --> 00:30:21,946
They make dates with me.
309
00:30:22,572 --> 00:30:25,742
Then they ask for another date.
310
00:30:26,034 --> 00:30:27,869
I tell them proudly:
311
00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:32,165
"What about life? You talk too fast".
312
00:30:33,708 --> 00:30:37,837
But I was afraid-
afraid all the same.
313
00:30:38,588 --> 00:30:41,091
Afraid of kindness...
314
00:30:41,424 --> 00:30:43,301
... afraid of men...
315
00:30:43,593 --> 00:30:45,428
... afraid of life.
316
00:30:47,138 --> 00:30:50,058
But I listened to them and smiled.
317
00:30:50,350 --> 00:30:54,020
I laughed in order to thank them.
318
00:30:54,312 --> 00:30:56,106
And I got tired of them.
319
00:31:07,867 --> 00:31:09,577
I've been to Japan.
320
00:31:09,915 --> 00:31:12,046
I've never been to Japan.
321
00:31:16,418 --> 00:31:18,294
I- like- Tokyo.
322
00:31:18,753 --> 00:31:20,422
Just a lot of barbarians.
323
00:31:20,755 --> 00:31:22,841
Tradition! Everybody has tradition.
324
00:31:25,927 --> 00:31:29,222
... of the Samurai- the barbarians.
325
00:33:51,531 --> 00:33:53,950
According to the Statistical Institute...
326
00:33:54,284 --> 00:33:57,000
... the Japanese are hard-working.
327
00:33:57,412 --> 00:33:59,914
polite, idealistic, frank, gay,
328
00:34:00,290 --> 00:34:01,416
rational and original.
329
00:34:01,833 --> 00:34:03,376
I saw myself quite...
330
00:34:03,793 --> 00:34:05,837
Just wait for the defects:
331
00:34:06,340 --> 00:34:08,923
Irritability, rapid loss
of enthusiasm,
332
00:34:09,424 --> 00:34:12,249
Insular, love of imitation,
333
00:34:12,349 --> 00:34:13,875
Inplacability, meanness,
334
00:34:14,402 --> 00:34:15,402
Pride and cruelty.
335
00:34:21,603 --> 00:34:26,437
So part of the Japanese character
is related to Sadism?
336
00:34:48,922 --> 00:34:52,175
These magazines and films
full of tied up women...
337
00:34:56,846 --> 00:34:58,139
... and violence for violence.
338
00:35:07,145 --> 00:35:09,434
Never a sign of love- only violence.
339
00:35:11,282 --> 00:35:13,988
The image of violence.
340
00:35:14,489 --> 00:35:18,493
That's something much easier
for me to understand.
341
00:35:19,953 --> 00:35:23,665
Violence was born with
the history of mankind.
342
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:29,170
It is bound up with the birth
and life of humanity.
343
00:35:31,131 --> 00:35:33,800
It's a natural force.
344
00:35:34,175 --> 00:35:37,929
There is no need to make any effort
about violence.
345
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,517
It's a mere nothing.
346
00:35:42,851 --> 00:35:45,186
I'm not afraid of it.
347
00:35:46,062 --> 00:35:50,817
I would never be wounded
by the thought of violence.
348
00:35:51,109 --> 00:35:56,072
I would merely die.
If I didn't, why, I would live.
349
00:35:59,660 --> 00:36:00,660
Love and tenderness.
350
00:36:02,787 --> 00:36:06,166
They're intellect-
and understanding.
351
00:36:07,375 --> 00:36:09,377
Something infinite-
352
00:36:10,712 --> 00:36:13,798
Severe and delicate like
the feeling in your hand,
353
00:36:14,132 --> 00:36:16,801
which tells you you have nerve cells.
354
00:36:19,262 --> 00:36:23,391
They're something finer-
and more profound.
355
00:36:23,892 --> 00:36:26,436
They're my only reason for living.
356
00:36:26,846 --> 00:36:28,313
The hope of my life.
357
00:36:30,065 --> 00:36:32,984
The only things worth dying for.
358
00:39:37,478 --> 00:39:41,047
Here is your horoscope.
359
00:39:41,464 --> 00:39:45,635
You will have lots of luck in life.
360
00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:49,014
But do not try...
361
00:39:49,347 --> 00:39:52,600
... to get ahead too fast.
362
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,348
Above all, obey...
363
00:39:55,815 --> 00:39:58,758
... your superiors.
364
00:39:59,733 --> 00:40:00,973
Never turn against...
365
00:40:01,465 --> 00:40:04,062
... your superiors.
366
00:40:04,446 --> 00:40:07,991
I don't think that the Japanese
of today believe in horoscopes.
367
00:40:09,451 --> 00:40:13,288
Then why do you see so many
fortune-tellers?
368
00:40:14,414 --> 00:40:16,916
I suppose they act as a sort
of catalyst...
369
00:40:18,877 --> 00:40:20,628
... for talking with yourself.
370
00:40:21,629 --> 00:40:24,215
From time to time everybody...
371
00:40:24,924 --> 00:40:27,135
... needs to talk to himself.
372
00:40:28,094 --> 00:40:31,136
Actually, fortune-tellers
don't tell you anything.
373
00:40:31,890 --> 00:40:35,226
They ask questions, listen,
and then speak.
374
00:40:36,311 --> 00:40:38,646
As for the older generation...
375
00:40:38,980 --> 00:40:43,109
... who probably believed
in horoscopes and so on...
376
00:40:43,443 --> 00:40:45,862
... they all prayed to Gods they knew.
377
00:40:46,237 --> 00:40:49,157
They had trust in their wisdom.
378
00:40:49,449 --> 00:40:53,161
They asked God for an authentic sign.
379
00:42:41,061 --> 00:42:43,688
There still remained one question...
380
00:42:44,064 --> 00:42:46,274
... to which Kumiko had started
to reply...
381
00:42:46,608 --> 00:42:49,611
one night returning from Yokohama...
382
00:42:49,944 --> 00:42:52,280
... with me in the driving rain.
383
00:42:53,114 --> 00:42:55,283
But what d'you think of...
384
00:43:01,498 --> 00:43:05,794
Did it have an influence on what
could happen to you, Kumiko?
385
00:43:06,878 --> 00:43:09,798
Or did it all happen
in another world?
386
00:43:10,173 --> 00:43:11,758
A world which was not yours?
387
00:43:13,927 --> 00:43:17,097
Oh no, it could happen to me too.
388
00:43:20,183 --> 00:43:24,145
It's like a wave. Like a wave.
389
00:43:24,479 --> 00:43:26,606
A wave rolling over the sea.
390
00:43:26,940 --> 00:43:28,817
The wave on the sea?
391
00:43:48,503 --> 00:43:51,673
Always, every day and every night...
392
00:43:52,048 --> 00:43:54,843
... every morning, always...
393
00:43:55,218 --> 00:43:57,470
... something is happening...
394
00:43:57,762 --> 00:43:59,848
... it doesn't matter what.
395
00:44:00,265 --> 00:44:05,311
Things go on happening one by one,
throughout the line of history.
396
00:44:06,187 --> 00:44:09,816
But for me, they're just
the morning's rubbish...
397
00:44:10,191 --> 00:44:13,278
... thrown out of the door.
398
00:44:21,329 --> 00:44:24,034
When I was a small child...
399
00:44:24,623 --> 00:44:27,041
... I lived by what I tasted with
my tongue...
400
00:44:28,044 --> 00:44:31,780
... or by the pleasant odours
which I smelt.
401
00:44:33,965 --> 00:44:39,304
At the very same time
mankind was beginning to suffer.
402
00:44:40,388 --> 00:44:44,726
Men went off to war,
and were made prisoners.
403
00:44:45,060 --> 00:44:47,729
They resisted and cried.
404
00:44:48,063 --> 00:44:51,565
They wept, and human flesh
was mutilatted.
405
00:44:53,485 --> 00:44:59,074
And yet, when I learn about all
this today, I am astonished...
406
00:44:59,407 --> 00:45:03,495
... that I didn't know of it for
a long time.
407
00:45:24,099 --> 00:45:26,267
I am surprised every morning.
408
00:45:26,685 --> 00:45:28,895
I am astonished how little
I understand.
409
00:45:30,313 --> 00:45:32,440
I cannot speak about anything.
410
00:45:33,024 --> 00:45:38,363
But soon, the results of all these
happenings will arrive.
411
00:45:39,364 --> 00:45:42,701
Like a wave rolling over the sea...
412
00:45:43,326 --> 00:45:46,955
... when there has been an earthquake
in the distance.
413
00:45:47,372 --> 00:45:49,416
No matter how far away it was...
414
00:45:50,333 --> 00:45:53,670
... the wave advances bit by bit...
415
00:45:53,962 --> 00:45:57,215
... until finally it reaches me.
416
00:45:58,049 --> 00:46:01,803
"It reaches me".
That was Kumiko's last word.
417
00:46:02,470 --> 00:46:04,973
There are 50 million women
in Japan.
418
00:46:07,308 --> 00:46:08,309
And one and a half billion
in the world.
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