The Magazine of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan

December 2020 · Volume 52 · No. 12

Happy days arehere again(If we’re careful)

OFFICIAL

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In this issue
December 2020 · Volume 52 · No. 12

In the last month of a very difficult 2020, we’re doing our best
to send you some seasonal cheer. The President sees light at
the end of the tunnel, and so does Yuriko Koike. Jonathan Watts
celebrates the perfect chaos of the best-ever PAC event in
Club history. Robert Whiting recalls a romance so doomed you
could almost be glad to be in 2020, while Yoshiko Miwa shows
us how heart and determination will always win through. Yes,
we do have an obituary, but an unusally upbeat Regular sees
one good reason for cheer. And of course all of us at Number 1
Shimbun wish all of you a very restful and happy holiday andpeace and safety in 2021.

Contact the Editors
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Publisher FCCJ
Editor Peter O’Connor
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Editorial Assistant Naomichi Iwamura
Photo coordination Hiroko Moriwaki, Norio Muroi
Publications CommitteePeter O’Connor (Chair), Suvendrini Kakuchi,
Monzurul Huq, Robert Whiting, David McNeill
FC C J B OA R D O F D I R EC TO R S
President Isabel Reynolds, Bloomberg L.P.
Special Advisor to the President
Monzurul Huq, Prothom Alom, Dacca
1st Vice President Andy Sharp, Nikkei Asian Review
2nd Vice President Walter Sim, Straits Times
Treasurer Mehdi Bassiri, O.B.M. Co., Ltd
Secretary Ilgin Yorulmaz, Freelance/BBC World
Service Turkish
Directors-at-LargePeter O’Connor, Freelance
Simon Farrell, Custom Media K.K.
Mary Corbett, Cresner Media
Daniel J. Sloan, Freelance/Nissan Motor
Kanji Gregory Clark, Freelance
Associate Kanji Vicki L. Beyer, Freelance
Ex-officio Khaldon Azhari, PanOrient News
Regular Reserve Director: Pio d'Emilia, SKY TG 24
FC C J C O M M I T T E E C H A I R SDiversity Ilgin Yorulmaz
Publications Peter O'Connor
Website Simon Farrell, Andy Sharp
Associate Members’ Liaison TBA
Entertainment Sandra Mori
Exhibitions Bruce Osborn
Film Karen Severns
Finance Mehdi Bassiri
Food & Beverage Robert Kirschenbaum, Pio d’Emilia
Freedom of Press Justin McCurry, Simon Denyer
House & Property Isabel Reynolds
Human Resources Walter Sim
Information Technology TBA
Law Koichi Ishiyama, Suvendrini Kakuchi
Public Relations (inc. Marketing Membership)
Simon Farrell
Membership Andrew Horvat, Monzurul Huq
Professional Activities Tetsu Jimbo, David McNeill
Special Projects Haruko Watanabe
DeRoy Memorial Scholarship
Abby Leonard, Kazu Takada
Compliance Kunio Hamada, Mary Corbett
Election Reed Stevenson

THE FRONT PAGE
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From the President
Isabel Reynolds

PAC AF TERWORD
04

Beating the odds
David McNeill

F E AT URES
06

Glorious Chaos: Maradona joins the Club

09

The Colonel and the Viscountess

15

Disabling disability

Jonathan Watts

Robert Whiting

Yoshiko Miwa

CLUB NEWS19

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New in the library, Regular by eggs

OBITUARY
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PHOTOGRAPHY
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Speed, light and gasoline: Joe Honda

Cover photo: Yoshikazu Tsuno, former Chief Photographer of AFP Tokyo Bureau

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THE FRONT PAGE

From the President

JULIO SHIIKI

Dear members,If you polish your glasses and squint hardenough, you can just about see it. Yes,
that tiny, unfamiliar thing in the distanceis a faint sign of light at the end of thetunnel. It’s hard to focus on it when Japan has
just recorded a new high of 2,684 virus cases
in a day and the third wave of the pandemic
is casting a pall over the normally lively endof the year. Bars and restaurants in Tokyoand other cities are being asked to close early
again, parties are being canceled and travel
campaigns brought to a halt. But human ingenuity is giving us much-needed cause to hope.
At least three of the more than 200 vaccines
under development around the world have
proved effective in an almost unbelievably
short space of time. While a vaccine typicallytakes a decade or more to reach the end-user,
the U.K. for example, is set to begin immunizations before the end of December. After a year
marked by sorrow, anxiety and isolation for somany of us, we can realistically begin to hopethat 2021 will bring something better.
For Tokyo, a lot hangs on whether and how
the city can finally pull off the delayed Tokyo
Olympics and Paralympics. Host nations tend
to go through cycles of jubilation and frustration over the costs and benefits of welcoming
the athletes and their millions of fans – and therisks are all too apparent this time. But, Thomas

Bach of the International Olympic Committee
has promised to try to get all the attendees
vaccinated, while Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike
at her recent FCCJ press conference painted a
picture of an ideal scenario, where the venues
are packed with fans. There’s no denying that
if the Games can be held safely, they have thepotential to re-set the national mood.
That goes for the Club as much as anyother organization. While we’ve sought toadapt to the current crisis over the months
by taking all the precautions we can to maintain safety on our premises and livestreaming our events so that members can take partwithout concern, opportunities to be in theroom with newsmakers are part of our DNA.
We’re hoping to welcome the many reporters from overseas who will cover the Tokyo
Games if they take place next year, and mostof all we’re looking forward to seeing all our
members in person again.
2020 has certainly been full of events mostof us want to put out of our minds as quickly as
possible. Bonenkai forget-the-year parties are
not advisable at the moment, so let’s quietly
raise a glass to that pinprick of light at the endof the tunnel. Here’s to a mask-free future!
● Isabel Reynolds has been reporting for
Bloomberg in Tokyo since 2012. She has lived inJapan for more than 20 years and been a Regular
Member of the FCCJ for most of that time.

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PAC AF TERWORDBEATING THE ODDSTOKYO GOVERNOR KOIKE YURIKO AT THE FCCJ

COURTESY OF KHALDON AZHARI

Governor meets President: Yuriko Koike and Isabel Reynolds

DAVID McNEILL

F

eminist, nationalist, opportunist: Koike Yuriko
has been called many things, not all of themflattering. A career of cycling through politicalparties without committing to any once earned
her the moniker ‘Madam Kaiten Sushi’, after restaurants
where plates of wilting raw fish wait to be plucked off aconveyor belt. Her defining characteristic, however, may
be her vaunting ambition.
Koike has been compared to former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and it is hard to avoid thecomparison. Apart from the hawkishness and air ofsteely headmistress, there is that carefully consideredwardrobe: she arrived at the FCCJ on November 24thin a Thatcherite blue suit and delivered a speech in her
purring, fluent English, extolling Tokyo’s success in controlling the coronavirus.
Like Thatcher, Koike has famously duked it out throughthe male ranks of her profession. Once a member of the

Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), she was defence minister in 2007 but lost her chance a year later to become
Japan’s first woman prime minister when Taro Asobeat her for leadership of the party. She later upset LDP
bosses by facing down their candidate, Hiroya Masuda,in the 2016 election for Tokyo governor, trouncing him
by more than 1m votes. In case anyone suspected that
was a flash in the pan, she was re-elected by a landslidein July.
One reason Koike beats the odds and captures the
public imagination is her portrayal as a plucky upstartin the male political bearpit. When one of her predecessors, Ishihara Shintaro, warned in 2016 that running
Japan’s capital could not be left to “a woman with toomuch make-up,” she laughed and said she was used tosuch insults. Japan’s gender barrier is not made of glass,said Koike, paraphrasing Hillary Clinton; it is made ofsteel. Like Thatcher, her potent charisma makes mostmale politicians – particularly blusterers like Shintaro
Ishihara – seem wispy and evanescent.

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BEATING THE ODDS
“At the moment,
being responsible
for Tokyo and its
population of 14m
people is what
I see as my utmost
priority, alongwith ensuring
the successful
hosting of the
Olympics andPara-Olympics”

Politics of the pandemic
Koike was scheduled to speak at the Club inMarch but the Covid-19 pandemic forced her tocancel, and her appearance on November 24thtime coincided with a worrying uptick in new
infections. Yet, she noted that the number ofcoronavirus deaths in Japan (fewer than 2,000
in a global total of over 1.3m, and about 40,000
infections in Tokyo) was exceptionally low,
despite the country’s large, disproportionately
aging population. And that’s relying heavily
on voluntary restrictions, rather than the hard
lockdowns imposed in many other countries.
Credit, she said, belonged to medical professionals, the high level of public healthawareness, and meiwaku – the ‘moral duty’of trying not to cause problems for others – adig, perhaps, at the culture wars that haveparalyzed America’s response to the virus.
“Mask-wearing has been a common practicein Japan for many years,” she said, showing
grainy slides of masked Tokyo commutersfrom the global influenza pandemic a century
ago. About 400,000 people died from the 1919
flu in Japan, she pointed out, including her
own great grandparents. People all around theworld, who once saw mask-wearing as an Asianeccentricity, now follow Asia’s lead, she said.

much of the developing world, the logistics
are forbidding. Athletes and spectators will all
have to be tested, everyone monitored, she
accepted. Though she neglected to mention
cost, experts predict the final price-tag, alreadywildly inflated from the ¥829 billion (then $7.3
billion) estimated by the Japanese Olympic
Committee in 2013, will leave the host city witha whopping hangover.
The prospect of a vaccine being available intime certainly improved the odds of the Games
going ahead, Koike said, but the final decision
was up to the International Olympic Committee and multiple stakeholders, of which heradministration was but one. “First of all, we
must ensure that a safe and effective vaccine
can be developed,” she said.

High hopes?

Despite Tokyo’s relative success against Covid19, there is no question of easing up. The
city’s izakayas may be stuffed again but large
public crowds are banned: Emperor Naruhito
has called off his traditional New Year publicgreeting from the Imperial Palace, the first timeit has been cancelled since the death of his
father Hirohito three decades ago. Koike said
there are plans to roll out more medical staff,
and her government had assigned hotel beds
for the mildly ill to avoid straining hospitals.
There is even accommodation for patients tospend time with their pets. How’s that for compassionate conservatism?

Has she abandoned her ambitions of warming the prime minister’s chair? Koike has few
worthy competitors. Just 10% of lawmakers
in Japan’s lower house are female, putting thecountry 165th out of 193 countries, according
to the Women in Parliament report. But she
swatted away the question. “At the moment,
being responsible for Tokyo and its populationof 14m people is what I see as my utmost priority, along with ensuring the successful hostingof the Olympics and Para-Olympics,” she told
the FCCJ.
Still, Yuriko Koike cannot be written off. She
is likely to emerge from the pandemic stronger and, at 68, she is a mere spring chicken
compared to some of the crusty grandees she
has battled in the LDP. But she will have to finda way to navigate through a political world
where she is viewed with a mixture of distrust
and respect, but not much affection. Japanneeds “the strengths of women: fortitude,
steadfastness, tenacity”, she said in her 2016
manifesto. Few doubt that she holds thesequalities in spades. What she lacks right now ispolitical friends.

And the Olympics?

● David McNeill is co-chair of the FCCJ’s

Looking ahead

REFERENCES
Madam Kaiten Sushi
Gender balance in parliament
Koike won by more than 1m votes
Ishihara quote (women withmakeup)Hillary/ glass ceiling
Koike manifesto
Women in parliament

Would all this ensure that the world’s greatest
sporting event proceeds next summer? Koike
put up a brave front about the postponed 2020
Olympics. “As the host city, I’m determinedto achieve the games whatever it takes.” Yet,with the virus resurging across Europe andstill raging across the United States, let alone

Professional Activities Committee and aprofessor at the Department of English Language,
Communication and Cultures at Sacred Heart
University in Tokyo. He was previously acorrespondent for The Independent and The
Economist newspapers and for The Chronicle ofHigher Education.

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F E AT URE

GLORIOUS CHAOS
WHEN MARADONA JOINED THE CLUBPER BODNER

Mock-punishment for your loquacious author

JONATHAN WATTS

J

uly 1, 2002: He came. He saw. He conquered. Then, he escaped through the
kitchen and out the back exit. The brief,
wondrous visit of Diego Armando Maradona to the FCCJ during the 2002 World Cup
will not easily be forgotten by anyone who wasthere, particularly me. I was supposed to beemceeing the talk with the Argentine football
genius, but he ran as many rings around me as
he had done around Terry Butcher, Peter Reidand the rest of the England team in 1986. The
result? Perfect, glorious chaos.
“El Diego” did not do normal. He had won
the World Cup with Argentina in Mexico in
1986, been a runner-up in Italy four years later,
and was booted out of the 1994 US tournament after failing a drug test. By the time of

the Japan-South Korea World Cup, he was 41,
retired, overweight and undergoing drug rehabilitation in Havana, where he was good friends
with Fidel Castro.
He almost never made it to the first Asian
final. Japanese immigration officials had taken
one look at his cocaine record and turned down
his visa application. At the last minute, theArgentinian government arranged a short-term
diplomatic visa to ensure the national icon waspresent at Yokohama Stadium for the final.

The arrival
Among the first to get a tip-off that he wascoming was Italian journalist and FCCJ second
vice president Pio d’Emelia. He and I (then first
vice president and resident football fanaticat the FCCJ) went to his hotel to convince his
entourage that he needed to be at the club.

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GLORIOUS CHAOS“(I was banned)even though
Americans who
dropped theatomic bombon Japan and(former Presidentof Peru Alberto)
Fujimori, whohurt countless
Peruvians, areallowed to freely
walk the streetsof Tokyo”

PER BODNERMaradona and then FCCJ
director Pio d’Emelia(Number 1 Shimbun,
8th August 2002)

They agreed to a press conference on 1 July,
the day after the final.
All standard protocols went out of the window from the moment Diego arrived on the20th floor of Yurakucho Denki Building. He
was sweating, distinctly agitated and appeared
to be having second thoughts. Before such
events, it was customary for speakers to go
into the ante-room, sign the guest book, anddiscuss the format. Diego was too impatient
to do that. He wanted to start the press conference immediately. If not, he told us, he would
walk out.
For some very anxious minutes, his departure seemed a very real possibility. I didn’tknow if he was jet lagged and irritated, suffering performance anxiety, or had lapsed fromrehab, but it felt very much like touch and go.
We agreed to start immediately.

The entry
As Diego Maradona walked into the packed
conference room to loud applause, I realised
the TV camera crews were still struggling to set
up. To buy time, I made an extended introduction – a few minutes long. Big mistake. I can’t
remember exactly what I said, but among theplaudits and the gratitude, I no doubt mentioned that I was English, that Maradona had
traumatised me and my compatriots back in1986 with his “Hand of God” (the notorious
hand ball goal), and then left us speechlesswith awe after scoring that extraordinary
second. While I was speaking, an irate Diegolooked up from his phone and said something
to Pio, who tapped my arm and translated themessage for me.
“If you don't get on with it, he’s leaving. And
before he leaves, he will hit you.”Time to shut up. After all, it is not every day
you get threatened by a global superstar. I tried
to joke my way out of my embarrassment byoffering to shake his hand and then pullingback and pretending to check first that I wasn’t
touching “the hand of God.” It was comic ham,but he seemed to appreciate the cheek of it
and laughed for the first time.

Game onFrom then on, the mood changed. Diego held
nothing back, particularly in his criticism of theJapanese visa authorities.
“(I was banned) even though Americans
who dropped the atomic bomb on Japan and(former President of Peru Alberto) Fujimori,
who hurt countless Peruvians, are allowed tofreely walk the streets of Tokyo,” he declared.
“But thanks to many people in Japan and South
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PER BODNERGLORIOUS CHAOS

The Maradona
PAC of July 1
2002: before theice melted“Fame is gauged
on what you doon the pitch at
the World Cup.
People talk about‘Beckham-mania’
but I don't see
David Beckhamwith the World
Cup trophy”

Brazil had won their fifth tournament with a 2-0
victory over Germany. Diego was unimpressed:“The final summed up the level of the tournament. It was a poor match. Brazil are just a collection of individuals. They don’t play as a team.”
He was still more dismissive of David Beckham, though the England captain had scoredthe penalty that knocked Argentina out of
the tournament.
“Fame is gauged on what you do on the pitchat the World Cup. People talk about ‘Beckham-mania’ but I don’t see David Beckham with
the World Cup trophy,” he shrugged.
The audience were treated with just as little
mercy. When one woman journalist in the audience asked why Maradona was so overweight,
he fired back, “Why are you so old?” Anotherquestioner asked how he felt about being named
by FIFA alongside Pele as the greatest football
player in history, Maradona retorted, “It’s a greathonour for Pele to be put in the same class as me”.
He was by turns brutal, funny and sharp, neverdodging an issue, never resorting to formulaic
statements. He gave a lot of himself. By the end,
he was posing for pics and juggling a ball that had
been tossed to him by one of the audience. Suchwas the clamour that he had to escape throughthe kitchen, taking another half-hour to sign autographs for the staff there on his way out.

Epic finale
All of this came as a fittingly epic finale to anincredible month of football, street parties,
naked jumping into the Dotonburi and megaevents at the FCCJ. The club football team (yes,we had one back in those days!) played games

against a side of Diet politicians, including former Japan playmaker Ruy Ramos as a ringer,
and former prime minister Yoshiro Mori asa supporter, at the national stadium. For the
opening match of the World Cup, more than
200 people had crammed into the club fora viewing party with a Samba band and Okinawan musicians. In the run up and during thetournament, the FCCJ staff, particularly events
secretary Wayne Hunter, had done an incredible job pulling in speakers, including Japanese
team manager Philippe Troussier, playmaker
Hidetoshi Nakata, FIFA president Sepp Blatter,vice president Chung Mong-Joon, and Brazilian
footballing legend Pele.
Of all the speakers we had during those halcyon days, none – in my opinion – held a candle toDiego. Pele may have been a more talented andsuccessful player, even a nicer human being. He
was certainly ahead in terms of politeness andpolish. But Diego Maradona was more authentic, more himself. That he was a troubled man,
openly flawed, not entirely stable, often arrogant, sometimes rude, was obvious. But that hewas supremely talented, generous and loyal tothe people he had grown up with, a genius in theraw, was undeniable on that day.
When I heard the news of his death last week,
I was deeply saddened. That experience at the
FCCJ had changed my opinion of him. The
cheat, the Hand of God and the drug abuser
didn’t really matter any more. Maradona had
become a real person for whom I felt a profound sympathy – as well as admiration. It can’t
have been easy being him, particularly during
the lows in his too-short life, of which there had
been far too many by July 2002. That he wasstill able to share so much of himself on thatday left a deep impression, and no little trauma
until I got out of the way of his genius. At least
I was in good company. Diego had many gifts,
but I suspect the one he enjoyed most wasleaving Englishmen in the dust. RIP.
Note: The quotes and anecdotes above arecompiled from news clippings, stories told tome recently by friends who were there, andmy own shell-shocked recollections. After 18
years, I cannot vouch for my memory.
● Jonathan Watts is Global Environment Editor for
The Guardian. He has served the Club as First VicePresident on two Boards in 2001-2003.

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F E AT URE

THE COLONEL
AND THEVISCOUNTESSA ROMANTIC REVERSE COURSE IN OCCUPATION JAPANROBERT WHITINGA

few months back in Number 1
Shimbun this author described
how the G-2 Intelligence wingof the GHQ and the Canon
Agency spied on communists during the
Occupation. However, they also spied on
fellow Americans. One of their targets
was Charles Louis Kades (1906-1996),
who was having an affair with the wife of aJapanese aristocrat.

Dangerous liaison?
Viscountess Torio
ca.1947

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THE COLONEL AND THE VISCOUNTESS
Willoughby sees red

Colonel Charles
Louis Kades

Kades, a Harvard graduate, Roosevelt New
Dealer and Wall Street lawyer, was deputy
chief of the Government Section of General
Headquarters (GHQ). Working under MacArthur, Kades was the moving force behind manyof the Occupation’s postwar reforms designed
to endow Japan with modern democratic institutions and do away with the feudal systemthat had put Japan on a path to war. Kades had
arrived in Tokyo in late August 1945. He hadoverseen the purging and imprisonment of theJapanese military officers, politicians, government officials and businessmen who had led
Japan in to the war and he had encouraged theformation of labor unions. Kades was charged
with creating the GHQ draft of a new Constitution, a remarkable document that renounced
war, stripped the Emperor of authority whileleaving him as head of state, established anelected government and guaranteed a rangeof civil rights, including, or the first time, fullequality for women (who had previously beensubservient under the law to the male headof the household). The new Constitution tookeffect on May 3, 1947.

The head of G-2 Intelligence, General Charles
Willoughby, thought Kades was going too far
to the left. The Cold War with the Russians had
begun and Willoughby was concerned about
the rising tide of communism in mainland
China and in North Korea and feared its impact
on Japan, where leftist demonstrations were
getting larger and noisier. The leader of theJapan Communist Party had called or a general
nationwide strike or economic and political concessions involving six million railway, school,
factory and government and other workers on
February 1, 1947. The strike was averted only
after a sharp public rebuke by MacArthur andthe implied threat of retaliation from American
soldiers. Willoughby thought the Occupation
could use the services of Japan’s top military
officers in combating the rising Red threat, as
well as the help of Japan’s top industrialists
in running the postwar economy, which wascaught in an inflationary spiral. There weremany New Dealers in the GS and Economic andScience Division (ESS). Willoughby suspected
there were communists or people with communist leanings in the Government Section
and the Economic and Science Division (ESS),
operating under the guise of democratization.
The leftist direction of the Occupation had
also attracted the attention of a group of influential Wall Street executives affiliated with
the Morgans, the Rockefellers and other large
multinationals with substantial pre-war business interests in in Japan who feared the newpolicies would harm their investments. This
group began lobbying for a change in Occupation policy, using their contacts in the US media
and direct contacts to encourage Willoughby
to conduct intense investigations into thosesuspected of leftist leanings in Tokyo, checking
into their histories, family structure and friends,
in coordination with the FBI and the Intelligence
wing of the US Defense Department. Willoughby paid special attention to Kades, his staff, theirfamilies and the circles they moved in.

Setting a Viscountess
to catch a Colonel
Willoughby was particularly intrigued by Kades
personal life. It seemed that Kades, a married
man whose wife was in New York undergoingtreatment for cancer, had a Japanese mistressand a very special one at that, the Viscountess

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THE COLONEL AND THE VISCOUNTESS

Viscount andViscountess Torio
and family

Tsuruyo (Tae) Torio (鳥尾鶴代元子爵婦人, hereafter Torio) (1912-1991), wife of the Viscount
Norimitsu Torio and mother of two children.
The stunningly attractive Viscountess Torio
had been involved with Kades since the earlydays of the Occupation. Some believed that
the Imperial Household had assigned Torio toseduce Kades in 1946 and ensure that nothing in
the new constitution Kades was helping to formulate would limit the Emperor’s sovereignty.
Torio was born in 1912 and raised in privilege
and luxury, but during the war years the family
fell on hard times. In the early days of the Occupation Japanese officials found her eleganceand fluency in English extremely effective intheir dealings with the Americans.
Torio first met Kades at a dinner party forhigh ranking GHQ officials hosted by Cabinet Secretary Chie Narahashi at the home ofprominent leftist journalist Tanzan Ishibashi.
The goal of the get together was to ensure that
nothing in the new constitution set limits on
the sovereignty of the Emperor or otherwise
weakened the emperor system.

Nicknamed the ‘Charles Boyer of the GHQ’,
Kades was a man of considerable charm. As
Beate Sirota Gordon, an aide to Kades who wasinstrumental in the inclusion of an equal rights
clause for women in the new Constitution, said,“He was wonderful. All the girls in the Occupation were in love with him. Including me.”Kades’ secretary, Ruth Ellerman put it thisway, “There were a lot of upper-class Japanesewomen who tried to get close to the liberals in
the Government Section. In the case of Kades,
the attraction wasn’t just a political or an intellectual one; it was more than that. But Chuck
was not the kind of man to chase after womenhimself; they chased after him.”
Nevertheless, Kades was reportedly very
taken with Torio, and she with him. As she put
it in a 1985 memoir published, she had an open
marriage. Her husband kept a mistress himself,
but agreed that what was sauce for the goose
was sauce for the gander. Soon Torio and Kades
began enjoying romantic weekend getaways in
Karuizawa, where the Torio family had a summer home. Kades also became a frequent visitor

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THE COLONEL AND THE VISCOUNTESSAn unidentified friend
with Torio and Kades on
the beach at Shonan.

to the Torio residence in Fukuzawa, Ryogoku,
parking his 1946 black silver Chevrolet in frontof the house for all to see and bringing presentsfrom the PX for Mr. and Mrs. Torio and their twochildren, including items forbidden to the Japanese under Occupation rules. Kades also helped
Torio open a boutique in the Ginza, catering to
the wives and mistresses of GHQ officers andwell-heeled Japanese businessmen.
In turn, as Torio tells it in her autobiography,
she helped Kades understand the Japanese asa people, explaining their devotion to Emperor
Hirohito and the need to keep the emperor system in place. Torio maintained that a purge ofJapan’s prewar military and financial businessleaders would weaken the administrative coreof the new Japan.

As part of his investigation of Kades, Willoughby arranged for a plain clothes detectivefrom the Metropolitan Police Department tomonitor his visits to the Torio residence, and toreport back via Jack Canon. As the detective on
this watch remarked, it did not take much work
to uncover the relationship between Kades
and Torio. Viscount Torio not only knew about
and condoned the affair but seemed to see it
as an honor bestowed on his family. Besides itleft him free to pursue his own interests. The
Viscount would see Kades and his wife off witha friendly wave, then go to pick up his secretaryand bring her back to his home. According to
the detective the Torios’ neighbors could not
wrap their heads around the goings on in the
Torio household.

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THE COLONEL AND THE VISCOUNTESSReverse Course kicks in

Tae Torio as a Ginzabar mamasan in the
post-Occupation era

The consequences went beyond thehousehold and the neighborhood. As theaffair became increasingly public knowledge,
individuals who had been purged by GHQ
asked Torio to use her influence with Kades
to remove their names from the purge list. All
this came out when Willoughby submitted his
report on Kades to MacArthur. As he put it,“Sir, in the Occupation Policy Manual, there isnothing that indicates it is all right to occupy
the wife of another man. Also, I might add that
Kades already has a wife.”
MacArthur, famous for saying of his men
that, “They could Madam Butterfly themselves to death for all I care” was not moved
to action, however, so Willoughby took thenext best course of action and set about
destroying Kades’ career, sending a copy ofthe police report to Kades’ wife in New York.
Mrs. Kades took the first flight to Tokyo,
confronted her husband with Willoughby’s
undeniable evidence, returned to the US andfiled for divorce.

On March 1, 1948, the pro-Socialist Hitoshi
Ashida Cabinet took power, strongly supported by Kades and many in his Government
Section at GHQ. MacArthur’s ban on strikes
and collective bargaining had weakened theleftist movement somewhat, as had increased
arrests of communist agitators by Willoughby’s people, but the new administration still
enjoyed sizeable public support, a state ofaffairs Willoughby found intolerable.
Willoughby’s war on Kades reached criticalmass in the spring of 1948 when Torio’s husband, now running a car repair business andstruggling to turn a profit, tried and failed
to borrow money from the Reconstruction
Finance Bank, an institution backed by GHQ
and set up by the Japanese government tohelp ailing businesses get back on their feet.
The Viscount had asked his wife to ask Kades
if he could find out why his loan application
had been rejected. Kades did investigate anddiscovered that the RFN, bribed by high-ranking officials, had channeled all its funds into
the Showa Electric company, Japan’s largest
manufacturer of fertilizer. Key members of
the Ashida government were implicatedas well as the personnel in the GHQ. When
Willoughby got wind of the bribes he leaked
details to the U.S. wire services AP and UPI via
the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan.
Although censorship had been imposed by
the Occupation’s GS, reprints of the wire service articles sent word back to Japan. In June
1948, Kozo Hinodera, President of Showa
Denko, was arrested.
Shortly after Hinodera’s arrest, a glamorous
heavily coiffed woman clad in a mink coatappeared at Viscountess Torio’s Ginza boutique. Torio recognized her as Hidekoma, ahigh-ranking geisha and a fellow customer atthe beauty salon in the Imperial Hotel arcade.
Hidekoma presented a bulky satchel to Torio,
begging her to accept it.
“There’s a million yen in there,” she was quoted as saying in Torio’s 1985 memoir, “and there
is more where that came from. Please give it to
Colonel Kades and ask him to get Hinodera-san
out of jail.”
Torio refused. Kades wasn’t that kind ofman, she replied. He had too much integrityto accept a bribe. Hidekoma left in tears, hersatchel no lighter.

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THE COLONEL AND THE VISCOUNTESSTae Torio in 1985,
when she publishedher memoir

PRIMARY SOURCES• Torio Tae, Watashi No Ashi Oto
ga Kikoeru, (Tokyo: Bungei
Shunju, 1985)• Kodo No Koi. ‘GHQ No Onna’
to Yobarete Koshaku Fujin(Shodensha, Tokyo 2011)• Shukan Shincho Editorial Staff,“Makassa To Nihon” (Tokyo:
Shinchosha, 1970)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This article and the photographs
published here owe a great
deal to Torie Tae’s 1985 Memoir,
Watashi No Ashi Oto ga Kikoeru
and to the courtesy of her
publisher, Bungei Shunju.

In all, in November 1948, 63 more werearrested, indicted and tried in the Showa Denko
scandal, including Prime Minister Ashida himself and the Minister of Finance. The Ashida
government was forced to resign and Conservative leader Shigeru Yoshida, a close ally of
Willoughby, became Prime Minister, usheringin four decades of right wing rule in Japan andcementing what would come to be known as theReverse Course in Occupation history. Purged
industrial and military leaders were reinstatedand many early reforms repealed. Soon reportsof the links between Torio-Kades and Hinodera-Hidekoma began to appear in the Japanese
weeklies. Some articles portrayed Kades as acorrupt American bureaucrat who had taken as
much as ¥30 million yen in bribes via his Japanese lover Torio, who was portrayed as little
more than a prostitute. It was not hard to guess
the origin of these rumors (see Shukan Shincho,
1970, citation below).

to say goodbye. Torio wanted to continue
the relationship but Kades dismissed it as an
impossibility: “I can’t stay here because I am too
disliked by the Japanese, after what happened
with the Ashida cabinet and everything. I can’ttake you back to the states because there is toomuch discrimination against Japanese. People
remember Pearl Harbor. I don’t want to hearanyone call you Jap.”
The downfall of the Ashida government
and the revelations of Kades relationship with
Torio ruined Kades’ career in Tokyo, but there
is no sound evidence to support a cluster ofcontemporary rumors: that it had all been
preplanned; that Torio had a connection withShowa Denko; that she had conspired with
Willoughby or that she had been a paid agentof the Emperor.
Kades officially resigned from the GHQ GS in
May 1949, on Constitution Day, the anniversary
honoring the day of the creation of the document that Kades had done so much to forge.
He had since remarried.
On June 24 1949, Viscount Torio died of acerebral stroke. After her husband’s death, theViscountess took a position as the head of PR
for Nihon Kaihatsu Kikai Co., in addition to her
job at the clothing store. In 1950, she moved
to the Aoyama section of Tokyo and – irony ofironies – fell in love with Kiyoshi Mori, who lived
across the street from her. Mori was the fourth
son of the then-President of Showa Denko andwould later became a member of the Lower
House. In 1953, Torio opened a bar in the Ginza
called “Torio Fujin” but closed it after two years
and 8 months.
In 1964, Torio traveled to New York city in an
attempt to rekindle her romance with Kades,
whom she had heard was once again single.
Tae Torio went on a severe diet, went on a fitness course, bought some new outfits and set
out for New York, booking into the midtown
Hilton. Kades kept her waiting for days, finallymaking himself available on the last night of
Torio’s stay. Kades took Torio out to dinner ata good restaurant. When he dropped Torio off
at the Hilton, his final words were, “Got an early
engagement. Nice seeing you, Tae.”And that, as they say, was that.

A final, final meeting● This article is excerpted from Tokyo Outsiders,

In December 1948 Kades was reassigned to
Washington. Before he left, he visited Torioa new book from Robert Whiting, scheduled for
publication in 2021.

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MAKING THE ARGUMENT FORINTELLIGENT EMPATHY AND SMART FINANCE
In this first-person account marking the United Nations International Day of Persons
with Disabilities on December 3, Yoshiko Miwa discusses the ongoing challenges
she still faces on the job and explains what keeps her going.

YOSHIKO MIWA

I

lost the use of my limbs in 2005, becoming
permanently bound to a wheelchair at theage of 42. The physical sense of loss wascompounded by a similarly striking psychological sense of loss.
I felt I had no one to rely on. I have had a difficult and abusive relationship with my relatives,
who have not only lacked empathy for my disability but were also prejudiced against and felt
so ashamed of my condition that they tried toconfine me to a hidden facility.
Neither could I rely on work as a form of
distraction. Once I lost my ability to walk, mywriting offers began to dry up. At the time, I had
numerous sources of income from semiconductor engineering and computer education
work, as well as from freelance writing. These
career setbacks came as a major financial blow.
Likewise, I could not rely on the government.
In 2000, five years before I lost my ability towalk, the government tightened the criteria toqualify me for national welfare support amidbudget cuts. Unlike before, when evidence of

The author with Ryu, now in recovery from uraemia.

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DISABLING DISABILITY“My own
personal survival
has hinged onlearning the ropes
and learning
through personal
experience aboutsocial welfare anddisability issues
in Japan”

Geneva Feb. 2016: The author
just before periodic review forJapan of the UN’s 1979 CEDAW*Convention

the symptoms of my disability had sufficed,
I needed a proper diagnosis to providing clear
justification for my disability certificate. However, my doctors could find not find a clear
cause for my degenerative disorder, whichmeant I did not have a diagnosis.
This has been a painful journey that has seen
far more downs than ups. In the early days of
my paralysis, I had to scramble to find ways to
pay off my mounting bills, including a monthly
30,000 yen lease for my electric wheelchair.
My only solace came from my three cats, whohave been with me through thick and thin over
the years, as well as disability rights activists
who lent more than a listening ear.

Disability certificate
I finally got my disability certificate in 2007.
A doctor found that my survival was not sustainable without it and made effort. By 2010,
I had managed to obtain sufficient grants anddisability pension income to scrape by. My own
personal survival has hinged on learning theropes and learning through personal experi-*CEDAW: 1979 UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women.

ence about social welfare and disability issues
in Japan.
But I refused to write about such matters
because doing so, I thought, would mean
admitting to defeat by my disability. But
I changed my mind after the Great EasternJapan earthquake, the tsunami and nuclear
disaster of 2011, when I realized just how many
people with disabilities were also barely surviving, out of sight and out of mind.

Life mission
I tracked news reports of the disaster closely,
but for as long as three weeks after the tragedy
I found no media reports about the fate of survivors with disabilities, among the countlessstories of victims who were trying to pick up
the pieces.
How could this be? I soon came to realizethat persons with disabilities and their families
would either have been turned away by shelters that were unable to accommodate themor had no choice but to live in their car or their
partially-destroyed home.

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DISABLING DISABILITY
discriminated against if they are seen as ‘causing trouble’.
My own disability made me feel personallyinvested in uncovering the important stories
among others like myself that the mainstream
media seemed to be uninterested in. My journey towards writing about disability issues
began in May 2011 when I visited the coastal
town of Urakawa in Hokkaido.
There, I learnt about its tsunami countermeasures, which were borne out of the fears
of a person with a severe psychiatric disorder,
afraid that a tsunami would strike someday
and wipe out her town. Rather than rubbishing
this as irrational clairvoyance, other residents
in the community instead worked with her ina project to make the town more tsunami-resilient. The decision paid off, when a 2.8-meterhigh tsunami struck the town in March 2011.
As a person with a disability myself, I can personally relate to the challenges faced by otherpeople like me. It is clearly my life mission totell these stories.

Financial struggles

Sendai city Nov. 2011:
Sidewalks remain
damaged and hard tonavigate 8 months after
the March earthquake.

This was not only due to a lack of infrastructure at shelters set up for able-bodied people.
But worse than that is the gap in empathy, as
survival instincts inevitably kick in when people have to fend for themselves. In disasters,
sentiments that have long bubbled under thesurface are blown up and amplified.

Difference and disability
There are many different forms of disability. The
loss of full use of one’s limbs makes it difficult
for me and anyone disabled to get around. But
there are also psychiatric disorders, which cause
sufferers to be shunned or seen as crazy if they
disclose their condition. Those with intellectualor developmental disabilities, meanwhile, are

In 2012, I began contributing a weekly series tothe online news site Diamond Online, discussing the issues surrounding welfare payments
in Japan. The series is ongoing.
Two years later, I began a doctoral study
about public policy-making on welfare payments in Japan. I hoped to present the realvalue of social welfare such that the benefits
can be felt by society-at-large, and not justdirectly by the recipients.
I have sought to do on-site reporting as far as
I can, as this allows me to directly observe what
people think. This despite the additional time
cost and inconvenience of getting around, andthe fact that, as a freelancer, I sometimes haveto dip into my own savings.
The Japanese government has, since 2000,
enacted policies dubbed ‘From Welfare To Work’designed to enable people with disabilities towork so as to financially support themselves. But
I do not think these have been very effective, nor
do freelancers like myself stand to benefit.
A 2016 survey by Kyosaren, which organizes
workshops for the disabled, showed that morethan 80 percent of people with disabilities
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DISABLING DISABILITY
I can only hope that throwing a more powerful
spotlight on diversity issues in society – including
at the FCCJ – will bring about greater awarenessand empathy from society at large, encouraging
people to lend a helping hand when they can, while
also treating us as equals in the job market.

relative poverty line. This ‘income’ does not
solely comprise salaries, but also additional
government grants such as welfare payments
and disability pensions.
Recipients of public assistance are morethan five times more likely to be disabled thanable-bodied people in Japan. Clearly, not many
disabled people in Japan are earning enoughto support themselves; those who manage to
do so are few and far between.
This relative poverty means it is very difficult to have a social life, still less to aspire to ahealthy, sporty lifestyle. Even as Japan is set tohost the Paralympic Games next year, many of
my peers do not see the value in these Gamesbut instead see the event as an ironic symbolof ‘ableism’ and a reminder of the huge gap
between ‘haves’ and the ‘have nots’ in the disabled community.
Resolving these challenges will be a long andarduous journey, a journey made even more
complicated by the Covid-19 pandemic, which
presents perhaps the greatest hurdle we haveto overcome.

Pandemic fears
The crisis is obviously difficult for everyone,
but people with disabilities will also feel theimpact very acutely. Job cuts will very likely
hurt those with disabilities even more than theable-bodied.

FURTHER READING
Real life protection (生活保護のリアル) Series, 2012:https://diamond.jp/category/s-seikatsuhogo
https://diamond.jp/category/s-seikatsuhogo2

To make matters worse, people with disabilities are more likely to have to fend for themselves, given the acute labor shortage amongcare workers. In 2019, there were 17 job offers
for each applicant – a figure that is likely tohave risen this year. With the crisis, many
caregivers or medical workers have been
redeployed to battle the coronavirus, thus
affecting the quality of care provided to persons with disabilities. Being more vulnerable
given our pre-existing conditions, there arealso underlying fears of infection of disabled
people by nurses exposed to the coronavirus
at hospitals.
Financially, it is almost for sure that persons with disabilities will take much longer
to recover than able-bodied people. To begin
with, we have fewer resources to cope. The
odds are stacked against us in ordinary times:
we have always had lower incomes, been
given insufficient public support and facedsocial and physical barriers. The pandemic
has hugely compounded our difficulties.
There is no magic bullet to fix all these challenges, but I can only hope that throwing amore powerful spotlight on diversity issues insociety – including at the FCCJ – will bring about
greater awareness and empathy from society
at large, encouraging people to lend a helping
hand when they can, while also treating us asequals in the job market. As a journalist, I am
determined to do all that I can to be a force forchange through my work.

● FCCJ Professional/Journalist Associate
Member Yoshiko Miwa is a wheelchair-boundfreelance journalist specializing in science,technology, and social welfare issues. She is aregular contributor to the online diversity newssite Diamond Online. She is also a member of theBoard of the Japanese Association of Science andTechnology Journalists (JASTJ).

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Yoshihide Suga
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on Wednesday, December 2 at 7:00 pm for a sneak preview ofBolt, veteran arthouse director Kaizo Hayashi’s visually and aurally
ravishing tribute to one of the many forgotten heroes of the 3/11
Fukushima disasters. In a triptych of haunting tales, we see theunnamed protagonist (Masatoshi Nagase) at the nuclear plant on 3/11,
then in the evacuation zone 2 years later, and finally, in 2014, living andworking in a garage, still mourning his wife, who was swept away inthe 3/11 tsunami. Rooted in reality but impressionistic in its dreamlike
imagery, Bolt features art direction and costumes by acclaimed artist
Kenji Yanobe, and calls to mind the films of David Lynch (Blue Velvet,
Lost Highway) and Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of Lost Children). Director
Kaizo Hayashi and star Shiro Sano will join us for the Q&A session.
(Bolt, Japan, 2019, 80 minutes. In Japanese with English subtitles).
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OBITUARYGORDON F. JOSELOFF
MAY 13th 1945 – NOVEMBER 9th 2020

PHOTO COURTESY OF CBS NEWS

Gordon Joseloff, 1945-2020

G

ordon F. Joseloff, an award-winning CBS News
journalist who served as Tokyo bureau chief, died
November 9 at his U.S. home with his son anddaughter by his side after a three-year battle withmyelofibrosis, a rare blood cancer. He was 75.
In addition to his Tokyo posting, during his 16-year tenure at
CBS News Joseloff held the roles of correspondent and seniorproducer and served as bureau chief for New York and Moscow..

a writer under Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, two legendary
men whose emphasis on trust and journalism explicitly impacted Joseloff’s career.
Never one to shy away from difficult stories, Joseloff centered his coverage on groundbreaking news both stateside andworldwide. While on assignment in Moscow, Joseloff covered
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, including the U.S. boycott of
the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

In Moscow

In Tokyo

Before joining CBS News, Joseloff worked as a correspondentand editor for United Press International. In 1975, on vacation in
San Francisco from his first, UPI, assignment to Moscow, Joseloff was an eyewitness to Sara Jane Moore’s attempted assassination of then-President Gerald Ford. His description of what hesaw appeared worldwide on UPI’s wires and radio network.
During his 2nd assignment to Moscow, Joseloff covered related stories in the Soviet Union, including the start of the 1980 labor
unrest in Poland - that year, he was the first U.S. network correspondent in Poland when Lech Walesa’s Solidarity union movement was created – and Leonid Brezhnev’s 1980 trip to India.
At the beginning of his career at CBS News, Joseloff started as

Gordon F. Joseloff joined the FCCJ on his assignment to Tokyo
for CBS News in 1981, being a Regular Member from December
1, 1981 to August 1, 1989. Joseloff kept a low-profile at the Club,
serving on no committees or on the Board. Instead, he masterfully reported the major Japan and Asia-related news of the day,including the Soviet shootdown of Korean Airlines Flight 007,the Bhopal gas leak, the overthrow of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos and the death of Japanese Emperor Hirohito. In
1984, his coverage of the assassination of Indian Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi won him a shared Emmy Award. Gordon Joseloff
returned from overseas in 1991 and was instrumental in coordinating CBS News’ coverage of the Gulf War.

The above is an edited version of a CBS News obituary of Mr. Joseloff. It is published with grateful acknowledgements to CBS News.

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PHOTOGRAPHYSPEED, LIGHT
AND GASOLINEJOE HONDA’S WORLD OF MOTORSPORT© JOE HONDA ARCHIVE

Joe Honda: “Motorsport photography…ran in my my blood and was my life.”I

n March 1967, with just $500, two cameras, and only a few
words of English, Joe Honda embarked on a journey to Europethat would define the course of his life’s work. He shipped his
Toyota Corolla (which he later drove around Europe) ahead ofhim, hopped on a Soviet sea liner, and never looked back.
Born in 1939, Honda graduated from the Nihon University
Department of Fine Art and trained with famed photographer Yuji
Hayata before going freelance. He began his five-decade-longcareer in October 1966 at the international Fuji Speedway race,
where he crossed paths with British racing stars such as Jackie
Stewart, Jim Clark, and Graham Hill, who had come to Japan for
the first time. In 1967, Honda became the first Asian to capture
the global motorsport scene. He was appointed the International
Racing Press Association’s (IRPA) regional representative in thatsame year.

Fifty years in motorsport photography
Over a prolific international career spanning five decades, Honda
captured iconic 35 mm film shots of Formula One stars such as
Bruce McLaren, Ayrton Senna, Niki Lauda, James Hunt, Michael

Schumacher, and Damon Hill. He documented Formula One, Two,Three, NASCAR, Indy races, Paris-Dakar rallies, motocross, andclassic car races. He became widely recognized as the father ofmotorsport photography in Japan, igniting widespread interestin a country where motorsport had been largely unknown.
Honda’s style draws inspiration from art forms as diverse as
sculpture, graphic design, French impressionist painting, anddocumentary photography. His images represent the developments, people, and culture that shaped the motorsport industry. They document a pivotal period in history, showing major
shifts in the automotive and photographic industries throughone artist's perspective and evolving practice.
Honda has exhibited in major art galleries such as the Nikon
and Canon salons in Tokyo and published extensively on thedevelopment of Formula One and the automotive industry. The
photographs on these pages are derived from Honda’s series on
Asia’s first international race held at the Fuji Speedway in Shizuoka Prefecture in October 1966. This December, the Club will beholding an Exhibition of Joe Honda’s work, organized in partnership with award-winning photography atelier Shashin Kosha.

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PHOTOGRAPHY© JOE HONDA ARCHIVE

Jackie Stewart gives the victory salute at the Fuji Speedway, 1966

EXHIBITION
Total Recall: Remembering Japan’s Temple of Speed
December 5th 2020 – January 8th 2021

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PHOTOGRAPHY© JOE HONDA ARCHIVE

Joe Honda recorded Japan’s first international non-championship race, the Fuji Speedway, 1966

EXHIBITION
Total Recall: Remembering Japan’s Temple of Speed
December 5th 2020 – January 8th 2021

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