GUEVARA'S MESSAGE A SENSATION IN JAPAN
One of our correspondents in Japan reports that the message sent by Coman~ dante Ernesto "Che" Guevara to the Tricontinental magazine created a stir in okyo.
The first publication to reach Japan with the news that Che Guevara had broken his silence was World Outlook, which also provided an English translation of the full text of Guevara's revolutionary message.
An article based on the material in World Outlook, with extensive quotations from Guevara's appeal for revolutionary struggle against American imperialism, was published as a main front-page story by the Nippon Dokusho Shimbun, the biggest book-review weekly in Japan (circulation about 100,000).
The other newspapers in Japan had apparently decided on a conspiracy of silence, not a line appearing about Guevara's message even in Akahata.
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