If anybody won the second world war it was the Japanese. Following a tactical surrender when we dropped the bomb on them, they turned their little island into a giant machine, producing goods for export so successfully that the President of the United States has to fly half-way there to beg them to sendspend some of our money back. But like all the other countries involved in that war they have had a hollow victory, an economic victory at the price of a culture. They have sacrificed themselves to survive and in the process they have created a world of inexpensive technology that has a great deal to do with the media-division in this country, a division between the old, whose sense of cultural reality was irreparably damaged by the war and the young who have discovered in themselves the potential for a world they see reflected in pre-war films.