ABSTRACT
On a visit to Japan in 1963, one year before the Tōkyō Olympics, I found the pace of change giddying: the fast-growing postwar economy and the spotlight effect of the impending Games produced a rush of development not unlike that of the Meiji and Taishō periods. There were new roads, new buildings, new subways, storefront English language academies in every neighborhood – but no teenagers, though we had come to accept them as a necessary modern evil at home.
