DRAWING JAPANESE SOCIALISTS, COMMUNISTS TOGETHER
The war launched by President Johnson against North Vietnam may help bring the Socialist and Communist parties of Japan closer together. This was indicated by Tomomi Narita, secretary general of the Japan Socialist party, at a press conference April 4.
"A crop of. danger signs in Asia and in Japan in particular" have arisen, he said. The danger signs include current efforts of the Japanese government to normalize its relations with South Korea, its stepped-up military ‘préparations, and the threatened escalation. of the war in Vietnam, These are "all brewing a crisis in Asia and Japan. ;
Narita said that his own party could not hope to settle these problems alone. All Asians should bear them