April 2, 2015
"Averting an alliance crisis over Okinawa was Reischauer and Kennedy’s challenge. Averting another one is ours."
No one shouted this time. A half century ago, the Okuma auditorium in Tokyo was the scene of a dramatic cry for a greater Japanese voice in its alliance with the United States—and a remarkable gesture, from a visiting Robert F. Kennedy, that it might be forthcoming.
This March, at a symposium at Okuma with a different Kennedy presiding, the theme of inclusion rang out again.
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