Changing Times

Headline: “Japan World Cup Fans continue the tradition of picking up litter after the game.”

When I was in my early teens, and the United States was at war with Japan, my friends and I thought of the Japanese as being imbued with some kind of inhuman maniacal savagery. I wouldn’t have believed that someday I would admire much about the Japanese and feel that the President of the United States is mbued with some kind of inhuman maniacal savagery.