Fuki Kushida: action is life. (Japanese feminist-pacifist)

Tokyo. I got off the train along with hundreds of people, but upon leaving the stairs I had my first pleasant surprise: the quarter of Nishi Oghikubo, on the west side of Tokyo, is busy, but not frenetic. Low wooden houses, narrow little streets with small family businesses selling wooden and cloth shoes, aprons, hand-painted oriental dresses in typical dark colors, thousands of little objects for use in small spaces. I arrived fifteen minutes early for my appointment with Fuki Kushida, the mythical feminist-pacifist, because, not knowing the area, I thought I'd walk around a bit first to find the "conferteria" near the office of the Fuji bank (the address of which I had been given).

A taxi blocked the street. Turning to the left I see a little photography shop, and in a side glance whom did I see agilely leaving the taxi? It was Fuki Kushida quickly entering a bar. I followed but just missed her. The bar man told me to go up to the second floor. A second pleasant surprise: the interview would take place in a little salon without noise from inside or outside. I entered, and Fuki came to me with her communicative smile, grasping my …