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Jim Vestal/Stars and Stripes Seoul, South Korea, September, 1960: South Korean police restrain a student protesting the visit of Japanese Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka, whose trip to the peninsula was the first by a high-ranking Japanese official since the end of World War II. Vestal's shot was selected as the top news photo of the year in the annual worldwide military photography contest, and contributed to his selection as Military Photographer of the Year.
Via Stars & Stripes.
1:24 pm on August 16th, 2010 1
Feelings towards Japan were still raw even later than that. I once knew a mainland Chinese man who told me how outraged elderly Chinese were in the early 70s, when Japan and China re-opened diplomatic relations.
7:20 pm on August 16th, 2010 2
I’m just seeing this post for the first time. Thank you so much for mentioning me. What a great feeling. Thanks again!
7:05 am on August 17th, 2010 3
"Feelings towards Japan were still raw even later than that. I once knew a mainland Chinese man who told me how outraged elderly Chinese were in the early 70s, when Japan and China re-opened diplomatic relations."
They're still raw now! Not much has changed in the last 70 years other than everything but harping on the past.
5:18 pm on March 21st, 2011 4
Amazing! He it is 2011 as I view that picture I made with my Leica M2 camera in the streets of Seoul in Korea for 16 months from about March 1960 to Sept. 1961. Since then I've seen S&S European Photo Chief Red Grandy in 1964 in Germany, and most recently at the S&S annual convention in Reno, NV, 2009. Kim Ki Sam was the Korean national and the other photographer with the bureau. He went on to Vietnam with the Korean troops. My Tokyo photo boss was Sandy Colton, who passed December, 2008.
Grandy was my brother Sam's (passed July 2002) boss 1952-53, and helped me make contact with Colton when I was shipped to Korea from Ft. Monmouth. N.J. photo school. I was a working press photographer in California when I was drafted Nov. 1959.
10:11 pm on March 21st, 2011 5
Jim thanks for visiting the site and sharing your memories about this photo.
12:24 pm on August 30th, 2011 6
I either read or saw on TV many years ago about an anti-Japanese protest in the Republic of Korea where some of the protesters cut off their own thumbs because they hated the Japanese so much. As I learned many years ago in the US Army, “Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.”