THE JAPANESE Reischauer 1968 COLOR

This is Japan in 1968 . Mary Pat and I lived in Japan from fall 1965 to spring 1966. This was our Japan....and Edwin Reischauer was the most-respected Japanese scholar in the US and Kennedy's ambassador to Japan.

[@mcarnell1889]

The swordsman looks a lot like Sir Christopher Lee. Fascinating video! Life looked a lot less rushed.

[@zanizone3617]

Fascinating. Today's Japanese would watch this video from the 60's, as the good old times. Yet people in the video, and the commentator (BTW I own his book about Japanese history, and it is considered a seminal work for any university student starting to learn about Japan), looked at the world as fundamentally modern and detaching from tradition.

[@AntonOlff]

Amazing how things have changed. The post war Japanese miracle has been replaced by the Chinese miracle.