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The Israeli,, who gm" her permission to interview Ok*mo< to "ter she h*d written to Prime Minーr Gold a Meir, w歡rned herれat Okamotopro-bゅly would be uncooperttWe'..
But Dr.Steinhott Uttle trpuble getting him to talk al* though, she ,親ys, "he wfta never friendly. TheiT was n«ytr Wiy kind of raflport established
between us, atid we certninly did not become buddies — but, he did talk quはe freely.'*
Okamo16 ■ ノappeared "complete" ly puzzled about bein豕brought to s.ee a totalatratifrer, 'a' haole who spoke Japanese," she said. She expl»,:ned th"sh^w義a "in-tereated in the student moVfr" ment imd in his ideas undhia feelings. I represented myself れ3 someone interested inliaten-inK, in hearing his atory," 'says,
In J线pan,Di..Steinhofたtmiked with Okarrtoto'sf»thef in the familyV:comfひrUble house.: in suburban 'Kuinamoto, city, about the size ofHcmolulu on Kyushu, Japan's southeirnimj" island.
The father, she says, is氣 "tired .ierraきschool..''.principal who'then went into'Bodal'work. Okamoto's /stepmother is:.'墓 schoolteacher, as was his own mother, who. died severalyean ago. ,、
0"mot6 is .'the ycnm豕est ol: sほchildren. The eldest brother has been—■ U . the student move* まnt, "but加t m deeply" a a Okamoio or thもbrother who is now 'in North. Koreiu -The. three girls "ftre allmarried «ndl6aiding .normalJupan'es e> wife-type lWes," says Dr. Steinho汰
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Her impress ion of the parents is that "the3rare very
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The p歡rents 'haサe' nevもr been involved in radical mo v e menは 丁heir sons, thinks Dr, Stj»in-
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She found thftt "the mott remark A We thin^ about thft fat her i, that he express«b •olutely BO ftngM< — no加of th« kind or thin豕,expert to find in an American family about 'how could he do this to me!,,
F"her,, Conclusion
She found him "very concerned 廳bout hi» son« and about thきkin"f person his son is.going, to be .froin now on,, and about what could cause his sons to do this sort of thing."
The father is "a very thoughtful very intelligent, very kind," she believes. "He hi is go Tie carefully over the wayhs raised his kids," and has concluded th«t family influence did noいlead to the actions his sons chosき,she say,.
Dr. Steinhoff grew up in カetroit a I id holds a Bfふiりa陽 paneselunguage andliterature from the Universはy of Michigan. Shelived three years in Japan,
The (ilsserUtion which earned her aPh.D. from Harvardynレ veひity in1969 was a study of pre"war Japanese radicals who .•vrere'. jailed-■ for politicalcrime's ゅd then recanted.
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Her interest in Okamoto is p,rt of aぉUowup'comijarative. atu(dy',of radicaldissent in .to* day's Jnpanに
"Iwimt to Uke alook a V the whole movement tひsee how much people are the same and how much thgy are (Afferent," she s«yi.
"I w貼iivterested Uien, and I am interested now, in who gets hw。lved in':.dissもn仁.wlnal. tha ideolojry of dissent is, and the relationship between the ideology and the action — what th-ey say they want, and how they try to get it, which dcm*t necessarily coincide."
Dr. Stednhoff also is "very strongly interested in how the JftpAn狄society interprets and responds to the dissenteひ一 ho,迈ochlatitude, it氣llaws. people to dissenty歡nd how the dissent en .re,pond to. the' oppo> sit ion of sodety,"
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iMfues* I wM uneerUin as to bow often they ,cnt drink^豕 wHh otherpirofeMon of —" nmk.; It —med th"ft prof)Msor's relationship with hi, group occupied ao much of hi, time that very1れtle time left to de> relop mftny j:&latk)加hips outside of his own group Mid his "tnily-This verticulnature of society is :somewhaぃdifficuれto' comprehend for mo" foreigner* including probably moゆNikkei. Al,o aNikkdwho go" to Jh* ■pa'n.c&nnot become fully so<cially intepra"d, since the 6, ',enp"-ko垂 h", relationships are usually establishedむom high schooland university day& Mo at foreigners who go to Jap an ar«ゆa ted royally, but they'w iIT nevei:.become an integralpart :of the society unless, he'lives:., t he ore ■from his. college days .or i!or 'many, .many 'years;、 even then 'if he happens to:have blond haii^, he w9uld never become, truly part of Japanese society. Un-derstandinif the intricate nature of this verticalsociety would be another reqiiiremeiit for total f*omprehension.、of' the Japanese,:
JftpaiIese Extremes
The contradictory .nature■■ Japan, action is again difficult to understand. A simple example is the fact that most Ja-paiiesekゃep their homes beautifully clean. We were very fortunate to have been invited to many .homes in Japan and 'iti-: 'va.riably: thゃ..house.' and:' small gぉrden were truly beautぱulwith everytliing .in i": proper.' piace. And yet this s卿e "paoese who keeps his own home sd immacula" I nay go out of his h(^Use and urinate and spit on the street, throw waste paper indiscriminately from his car, discard e迈pty beer and soda bot-tleき.andlunch boxes ali. akmg hiking trails and even in public par", and haャe qomplete disregard jfor public sanitaticm and cleanliness; this is particularly so When anonymity i3 maintaiin. ed while polluting the env^on-ment
The Japanese socioists exploit this phenomenon iathe'foレ lowing迈anaer: since « Jap" nese is. so restricted . inへhi a owiv'. ho use hold, he feeIs free to do anything he wants outside ofhU ho鹏にThisInternalrestriction consists of befaftving one's f敦ther, knowing^ oneVsUtus in the "-mily, and obeying allthe dAlcustoms of the ho迈e^
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meat exists throughout ,ociety. Therefore if o狄enters it room occupiedおみpanese there is » prol) ability that one e«n ft pot the most important person in the room by the se奠ting arnm^ tnent* THis柳a rently causes confusion to the. Japanese who walks into a roomfulof foreiff-net9, since most foreigner a do .not sit in a..fixM iuTBngem抑t:' the Jnpanesd has & difficult time trying to determine who is'the moist 'important person in the room to who迈he should pay homagei»
Issei Admonition
Returning to the behai^ior of Japaneseiれpublic piapes, I have observed just the ophite behavior pattern a迈onNikkei. In America'—most 'Nikkei...groups', takゃgreat pride in "leaving a publie park cleaner than it Waa before.they came.".This type of behavior probably wぉderived from the' coneepいof "remaining as inconspiciious as possible in a hostile white society." Most Nikkei willremember the ad, monitioii of thelssei to "not bring harm' on the whole group": by car elsss actio its.
The contradictory nature of the Japanese is' also .brought out in thdr emoVwnalbehavior. As a Nネsei I小M been raised on a ■diet of.sammai.movi" in'which the :cool.samur" showed .veix little emotion wWLe artistically slicing peびple in half. Sincelie was the)eroゃfthemovie, my conception of, a typicalJapanese CO nsi & ted力f'a "cool:sa印urai.,,
The people:I should' h.ave、be€D noticing''were the. poor:farm'era, the 'merchants, the servants, thie gamblers, ..or■ in other words 'the more typical.man-FW,it turns out thiat the幼咖mi is &むe&ぉ in terms of typicalJftpanes.も emotionalb^fivior. The .typical Japanese is a "ry emotional and. sensitive p.ersoiu Hや'does, not .reveal.:hおemotions often: but when he does,はislike a d«n burstingind :in many cases he carries things to extremes^
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