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THE JAPAN TIMES - OPINION PAGE
Book Excerpt
LIFE STORY
Life Story -
Preface
Life Story - Introduction
Chapter 1 - Growing Up
Chapter 2 -
Discovering China
Chapter 3 - Into the
USSR
Chapter 4 - Back to Canberra
Chapter 4a - The ANU &
Vietnam
War Debate
Chapter 5 - Into Japan
Chapter 5a - Learning the
language
Chapter 6 - Back to Australia
1968-9
Chapter 6a - Back to the Vietnam
Debate 1968-9
Chapter 7 - Back To Japan
Chapter 7a - Ping Pong Diplomacy
Chapter 7b - Thoughts on
Revolution
& Violence
Chapter 8 - More Journalism in
Japan
Chapter 9 - Back to Canberra
Chapter 10 - Deadlocked in
Canberra
Chapter 11 - Goodbye Australia
Chapter 11a - A Book About Japan
Chapter 11b - Back in Japan II
Chapter 12 - Book Aftermath
Chapter 12a - Discovering Boso
Chapter 13 - A New Life in Japan
Chapter 14 - Redefining the
Theory
Chapter 15 - Explaining Japan's
Progress
Chapter 16 - Retailing the Tribe
Theory
Chapter 17 - The Amateur
Developer
Chapter 18 - Economy
Watching
Chapter
19 - Back to Australia?
Chapter
19a - Back to Australia?
Chapter 20 - The Great Australian
Tribe
Chapter 21 - Re-involved with Japan
Chapter 22 - Japan's Economic
Dilemma
Chapter 23 - Japan's Economic
Mistakes
Chapter 24 - Irrationality of
Australia’s Economic Rationalism
Chapter 25 - Access to Foreign
Media
Chapter 26 - The Gaijin
Educator
Chapter 26a - Rescuing the Education
System?
Chapter 26b - Getting
Re-Involved
Chapter 27 -
Finale
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Revised Chapters
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For Keizaikai - Education
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本物の難民が１割しか認められていない現実
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Keizai Kai: November 19, 2002:
市場原理主義を振りかざす教科書的な経済学者たち
A Contrarian view of how 'austerity' bleeds Japan
With the Standard and Poor's downgrading of Japan's long-term credit rating from AA to AA minus...
Wrong choice in Kosovo
Militia leaders of the KLA tortured and killed hundreds of Serbs and political rivals in secret Albanian hideouts, removed their organs for sale and dumped their bodies in local rivers.
最近の欧州評議会（CE）報告によると、1998ー99年のコソボ戦闘のあと、コソボ解放軍（KLA）の民兵指導者たちは、アルバニアの秘密の隠れ家で、数百のセルビア人や政敵を拷問し、殺害した上、その体内臓器を摘出して売りさばき、死体は近辺の川に捨てたという。
Nuclear meltdowns and Japanese culture
Japanese engineers have a much deserved reputation for efficiency.
日本の技術者は効率のよさでは定評があり、実際たしかに評判どおりと思う。
Between China and Japan
The visit to Japan by Australia's Labor Party prime minister, Julia Gillard, reminds us that Australian foreign policy has never been known for its consistency.
日本と中国の間で
オーストラリア労働党のジュリア・ギラード首相の日本訪問は、オーストラリア外交政策が一貫性を持っているとして評判になったことはこれまで一度もなかったことを、思い起こさせる。
The Fukushima disaster and Japan Disincorporated
The Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant disaster is being used to convince the world that nuclear energy generation is inherently dangerous, especially in earthquake-prone Japan.
Black info and media gullibility: creation of the Tiananmen myth
The recent WikiLeaks release of cables from the U.S. Embassy in Beijing has helped finally to kill the myth of an alleged massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square ...
最近ウィーキーリークスが、北京の米国大使館発の電報を公開したことは、1989年6月3 4日夜の北京天安門におけるいわゆる虐殺の神話を最終的に息の根を止める助けになった。
Murdoch's moral rise and fall
Recent U.K. phone-hacking revelations have made the Australian-born media tycoon Rupert Murdoch...
Economic morality play
World attention focuses on the problems of the Greek economy — no doubt with a large helping of schadenfreude added:
The Japan Times Nov 11, 2011
TPP: APEC's anti-China
son?
The French
have a saying: "The more something changes, the
more it remains the same thing."
フランスのことわざにいう― “何かを変えれば変えるほど、それはますます同じものとして残る。”
The Japan Times Dec 29, 2011
North Korea's Khrushchev
Scenes of
Pyongyang citizens wailing the death of "Dear
Leader" Kim Jong Il remind us how easily
dictatorships can manipulate public
opinion.
“敬愛する指導者”金正日の死を泣き悲しむピョンヤン市民の光景を見ると、独裁者がいかにかんたんに世論を操縦できるか思い知らされる。
The Japan Times Jan 23, 2012
Bad economics helps China, cripples the
west
Today's
lecture is on the sorry state of that dismal
science called economics...
ヨーロッパの損は中国の得
今日の講義は、経済学と呼ばれるあのみじめな学問の悲惨な状況について話そう。
イラン攻撃のあやふやな理由
自分が敵対する諸々の国に対してアメリカが採用している理由づけが一次元的であることには、よくやると感心せざるを得ない。
The Japan Times Feb 9, 2012
Dubious reasons to attack
Iran
It is hard
not to be impressed by the one-dimensional reasons
the United States gives for its various
animosities.
キャンベラで労働党内対決
それは対照的なもの同士の戦いだった。片や元豪首相ケヴィン・ラッド54歳、ベビーフェイスの元外交官...
Labor showdown in Canberra
It was a battle of the opposites. On one side we had ex-Australian prime minister, Kevin Rudd...
日本批判者を事実チェックすれば
いまアメリカの優良メディアは、政治家たちによる法外な主張を暴くために、事実チェッカーや真実メーターというものを使っている
Fact Checking Japan's Critics
The better U.S. media now use fact-checkers and truth meters to debunk outrageous claims by politicians.
日本の大学改革
メディア報道によると、日本の教育官僚たちは、学業成績抜群の高校生について１８歳以前でも高校卒業を認めようと考えはじめているようだ。
Reforming Japan's universities
Media reports say Japan's education bureaucrats are considering allowing students with "stellar" academic records to graduate from high school before they turn 18.
緊縮の経済学は筋が通らぬ
財政引き締め志向のヨーロッパの緊縮プランナーたちは、単純な数学がわかっているのか。
Economics of austerity don't add up
Do Europe's budget-cutting austerity-minded planners understand simple math?
日本の“敵前逃亡者”を想う
8月15日はお盆の日、日本各地でいわゆる死者の霊を黄泉の国の苦しみからこの地に呼び戻すという行事が行われる。
Remembering Japan's 'deserters'
The Obon festival celebrated on Aug. 15 in many parts of Japan marks the alleged release of ghosts from past mythical sufferings.
原子力エネルギーについて
福島第一原子力発電所の災害が起きて、日本は将来の原子力エネルギーの役割について再考を迫られている。
The case for nuclear power
The Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant disaster has made Japan reconsider the role of nuclear power in its future.
日本の大学教育の危機
正規の4年制大学となって学位を与える資格を申請していた三教育機関に対して文部科学省官僚が与えた認可を、田中真紀子大文部科学大臣が不認可にしようとした件で、大臣が謝罪した。
Japan's university education crisis
Education minister Makiko Tanaka has apologized for trying to cancel approvals given by her ministry...
日本の指導者は財政ビッグバンを持続させる必要を理解すべき
日本の株式市場は、安倍晋三首相が彼自身の経済刺激計画を発表する前から、すでに上向きに転じていたため、さすがにいつも聞かされる刺激政策批判も口を閉ざすかと思われた。
Japan’s leaders must see the need for sustaining a fiscal Big Bang
With Japan’s stock market surging even before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled his plans for economic stimulus...
日本の遠隔地で教育の奇跡
中央から遠く離れた北日本の秋田という土地の、小さな一地方大学学長の死が、全国レベルのニュースになることは、そもそもめずらしい。
Education miracles in remote Japan
That the death of the head of a small provincial university in the remote Akita district of northern Japan should be national news is remarkable enough.
日本の領土問題解決のカギは柔軟性
今に至って、日本はいよいよ全ての隣人ときびしい紛争になってしまった。
Flexibility key to resolving Japan’s territorial disputes
At last count, Japan was in severe dispute with every one of its neighbors
平壌の攻撃的威嚇は西側の“デモナイザー(悪魔を作る人)”のせい
アメリカのイラク攻撃から10年が過ぎたが、疑問は残る：
Blame Western ‘demonists’ for Pyongyang’s belligerence
Ten years after the U.S. attack on Iraq the question remains...