HEAVILY GUARDED IN JAPAN
The Japanese government was clearly very nervous about the fifth Joint U.S.-Japan Ministerial Meeting in Kyoto July 5-7. The presence of Secretary of State Dean Rusk offered an opportunity for the Japanese people to express their feelings about the escalation of the war in Vietnam.
Some 4,500 police smuggled Rusk. into town from the airport. A total of 3, 500 police guarded the conference participants and the ... hall. They deployed 2,840 uniformed officers, plainclothesmen and members of riot squads along routes to the hall to prevent entry of | any "undesirable character. . : eich.
At the hall itself, 600 policemen were posted. Ten police cars escorted carloads of U.S. and Japanese delegates between the hall and the Miyako Hotel.
All arriving cars were checked at a ‘point one kilometer from the hall. Cab drivers having no entry pass were-turned back. Even innocent hikers in the surrounding hills were turned back by the police.
Rusk was probably grateful for the police. All the routes to the hall were plastered with signs reading in Japanese, "Warmonger Rusk Go Home." For Rusk's benefit, the well-known international phrase, in letters of the English alphabet, were added, "Yankee Go Home." Periodic demonstrations were. staged, too. The participants were mostly students and members of unions affiliated with the General Council of Trade Unions of Japan [SOHYO].