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Charm offensive - Tokyo

Preface

Tokyo may be peaceful and calm but its governor is certainly not. Here he explains why his city has bad traffic (the Communists), what he thinks of modern Tokyo (vomit) and why kamikaze pilots were not suicide bombers.

Credits

Photographer: Shigekazu Onuma
Writer: Fiona Wilson



01 :: Shintaro Ishihara

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