69' s creative background

Sasebo was once one of the important bases of the Japanese navy during the Second World War, and it also became an important base of the US military stationed in Japan and the Japanese Self-Defense Force after the war.

1In April, 967, Ry? Murakami graduated from junior high school in Guang Hai, sasebo, entered North High School in sasebo, and began a three-year high school life of great significance to his life. The following year, the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise sailed into sasebo military port. To this end, the Japanese "Anti-Yoyogi National Student Movement Alliance" once launched a massive demonstration to prevent the US aircraft carrier from entering Hong Kong. This student movement had a great influence on Ry? Murakami, a sophomore, and she was once cheated. In the summer of senior three (i.e. 1969), Ry? Murakami and his partners occupied the roof of sasebo North High School and posted slogans such as "disintegration of North High School" and "smashing Nagasaki's state-owned system", for which they were suspended indefinitely for introspection. (About this student movement,1969 The Yomiuri Shimbun (Western Edition) published on July 20th has been reported in detail. )

1968 to 1969, in order to cooperate with China's "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution", the Japanese left-wing student movement broke out, and the graduation ceremony in sasebo of Gaobei was smashed on the principle of 1970, so many people dropped out of school.

During the three months of reflection, Ry? Murakami began to get in touch with hippie culture represented by anesthetic and rock, and started to form rock bands, shoot 8 mm films and participate in theatrical performances on the eve of graduation in March 1970. /kloc-Ry? Murakami, 0/7 years old, is ignorant and lives in the West Kyushu base where the US military is stationed. The western culture brought by TV, movies, newspapers, rock music and poetry has an overwhelming influence on the incarnation of the writer in the novel-Yasaki Kensuke and his peers.