All the Sad Young Men

University students and their professors are the unhappiest people in Japan. This is the report, cabled by TIME'S Chungking Correspondent Theodore White last week, of a Chinese teacher who visited Japan last year on a puppet-government mission, has since repented his apostasy.

Japanese universities, reported the Chinese educator, now teach only physics, medicine, engineering, agriculture. The students are almost the only able-bodied young male civilians to be seen in the cities where the proportion of young men to young women is now about one to 40. The students must wear a special uniform, are forbidden to appear on the streets with girls or to have dates with them. Even brothels are closed to them. Their chief relaxation is to get drunk--but even this is difficult. Japan's wartime grog ration is two bottles of beer a month for each male adult.

Students occasionally manage it by trading some of their rice allowance with people who would rather eat than drink. In time they thus acquire enough beer to help them forget Japanese reality for a few hours.

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