Angry and embarrassed, the Okinawans stared at the television monitors in a Tokyo TV studio. Across the screen flashed scenes of Japanese student rioters surging through the Ginza area, hurling Molotov cocktails, jamming auto and rail traffic and stoning every cop in sight. Police kept the 8,000 demonstrators under a degree of control with the generous use of throat-clogging tear-gas grenades and high-pressure water hosings. In the process, some 160 people were injured and 900 students were seized.
Once again it was Okinawa Day in Japan, and the students were ostensibly demonstrating...
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