Many newcomers appeared one after the other and the next epoch seemed to guarantee a ripening of jazz. But the time came when this enthusiastic period came to an end. The opposition movement against the 1970 Japan–U.S. Security Pact was effectively halted. The young people returned to the campus frustrated, and in due course graduated to employment in enterprises that supported the very power structure that they had regarded with enmity. They became “salary men” and lost their vitality to maintain a “jazz energy.”
