[{"node":{"title":"GreacenStanford223","Collections":"Letters to Stanford","Contributor":"Greacen Estate","Coverage":"1975 Mar 18th","Creator":"LHL","Date":"Wednesday, March 16, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"GreacenStanford223","Item Description":"Letter","Keywords":"Leftist, Japan, Geneva","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/greacenstanford223","Publisher":"LHL","Relation":"LHL","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/GreacenStanford223.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeffwon\u2019t become too Westernised. A letter from a\nformer Japanese student of mine tells me\nthe economic crisis is biting deeply - as ours\nprobably will witin the next year. He writes:\n\"We have radical Leftist movements (generally\nit is called .'Red Army' movements in Japan. Last\nyear,the headquarters of our company had been\ndamaged by the bomb attack by leftists. The\nattack was for the headquarters of Mitsubishi\nHeavy Industries,but our headquarters which was\nsituated opposite side to the MHI headquarters\nhad serious damage. Many acquaintances of mine\nhad been injured with the broken glass ...\nOur order awarded is unexpectedly low and the\nfactories in Itami works are very quiet. We may\nhave a kind of lay-off in the near future.\"\n\nF applied for a job as a telephonist,as he\nfound it impossible to get a translator-\ninterpreter's job (he didn\u2019t try very hard). Had\nan interview and tests this a.m. The French\ntests were laughably easy - he x said the\nexaminer was smiling as he answered various\nquestions and translated from and into French.\nSo he\u2019s been accepted for training,though that\nwon\u2019t start for some time. Better than nothing\nbut not the job for an Honours graduate with\nlong experience of high-level work involving\n4 or 5 languages. He\u2019s staying in London rather\nthan going back to Geneva as he hopes his woman\nfriend will eventually join him here - she's a\nsmall-town girl with little education and\nwouldn't take to the idea of living on the Con-\ntinent. x>/del> He says he intends to give up\ndrinking and has been on the wagon for a few\ndays.\n\nHerta and Mathias due on Sat evg. Are you\nlikely to be in town next week ? If so,perhaps\nwe could meet. Mall Tavern wd be a good meeting\n\nplace if you are selling books at Miss R's.\nLove to you both- Robert\n","Type":"Text"}}]