Leaving Japan observations on the dysfunctional U.S.-Japan relationship
Written by an American journalist living and working in Japan, this book helps the reader understand the enormous problems inherent in both U.S. attitudes towards Asia, and in Japan's way of looking at and dealing with the world. It uses a narrative flow of personal reflections and interviews w...
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Armonk, N.Y. :
M.E. Sharpe,
2000
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Japan's Burden of the Past
- 2. Memories of Failed Policies
- 3. Rape on Okinawa
- 4. A Small Island's Anger
- 5. Trade Judo: Exploiting U.S. Strength
- 6. Delusions of American Empire
- 7. Meeting a Remarkable Man
- 8. Charlatans and Mentors
- 9. God on Their Shoulders
- 10. Buying Influence in America
- 11. Seeds of War, Saintly Flower
- 12. The Politics of Betrayal
- 13. Cross-Cultural Homecoming
- 14. A Japanese View of Security
- 15. A U.S. View of Security
- 16. A Japanese View of Trade
- 17. A U.S. View of Trade
- 18. International Marriage
- 19. Dreams of a Japan Fulfilled
- 20. A Question of Transformation
- 21. Japan and the Military Metaphor
- 22. A Historical Debt to Germany
- 23. Germans and Japanese
- 24. A Buddhist Patriarch
- 25. Too Much of a Good Thing
- 26. Thwarting Development
- 27. The Stifled Individual
- 28. Birth of a Family
- 29. A Lonely Rebel
- 30. Flickering Revolutions
- 31. Loyalty and Corruption
- 32. Legacy of Tokugawa
- 33. The Asian Crisis
- 34. Return to Okinawa