IN A STUDENT AREA OF Tokyo called Takadano baba, behind a peculiar sculpture showing a n ude Marilyn Monroe about to pounce on a su mo wrestler, lies the office of Kunio Suzuki, lea der of a ''spiritual movement'' called the Issuik ai.
The group produces a monthly paper called Re conquista, which aims to reconquer what Suzu ki thinks has been lost: the pure Japanese spiri t. On the wall of Suzuki's tiny office hang pictur es of Emperor Hirohito in uniform, snapped so metime during the 1930's, and of Yukio Mishi ma, the ultranationalist writer who committed seppuku, a form of ritual suicide, in 1970.
Suzuki is a quiet man in his early 40's, casually dressed, more like a research fellow than a rig ht-wing activist. He receives many fan letters fr om young women, who profess to admire his r omantic spirit.
He explained that ''because of biased textbook s'' many people of his generation felt guilty ab out the Japanese role in World War II, ''and pe ople who did better than I did at school all join ed the left-wing student movement.'' He concl uded that there was something wrong with Jap anese education. He also worries about the spi ritual state of most Japanese, ''who spend their time reading comics and watching TV,'' but he conceded they were probably quite content. A young member of the group, who had been en grossed in a book on terrorism, suddenly brok e his silence to exclaim that it was all America' s doing: ''They want us to be weak. That is why they rigged our education system. To stop Japa n from being a major power.''
