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THE JAPAN TIMES - OPINION PAGE
Book Excerpt
LIFE STORY
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 - The Gaijin
Educator
Chapter 26 - Access to Foreign Media
Chapter 27 -
Finale
BOOK REVIEWED- Book Causes Stir-Japan seen as tribal society
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TOKYO BUSINESS TODAY-
Index of Articles
JAL WINDS MAGAZINE - Thank you For Hurting our Ears - Taking the Tribal Theory to the Japanese
For Keizaikai - Education
Children
THE DAILY YOMIURI -
Poor Teaching, Not Culture, to Blame
MAINICHI DAILY NEWS - Japan is a Tribe
Ark Hills Club Article
No.1 SHIMBUN - Opinion -
- Rebutting Mikie Kiyoi's Claims
- How to get to China
- In Peking some Old Reminders
- The Passbook Law - South Africa is not Alone
NKK NEWS - The Locomotive Role of Service Industries in Japan's Maturing Economy
THE JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL -
'Japan Unincorporated' actually is better name
MEANJIN QUARTERLY June 1973 -
A New Foreign Policy for Australia?
WINTER 1974 - BETWEEN TWO WORLDS - The Radicalization of a Conservative
NIKKEI WEEKLY - To Expand Demand, First Widen Debate
- 'Free trade' is a tricky banner to unfurl
- Japan And The West May Some Day Have To Adopt Singapore's Ways
JAPAN FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER - The Human-Relations Society and the Ideological Society
JAMA FORUM - Understanding Differences - Why Western Models Can't Comprehend Japan
AMAGI CONFERENCE SPEECH -
The State of Japan
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan - Doing Business in Japan - an Insider's Guide
OTHER
ARTICLES
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Expanded Version
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QUADRANT:
The Japanese Tribe: What Makes it
Work?
1975
Multiculturally Bemused in Tokyo
QUADRANT
- Letters to the Editor:
Western and Other
Brutality
Hungary and
Vietnam
The Curse of the Left and Right
More Lessons from Munich
A Choice of
Protectionisms
THE INDEPENDENT MONTHLY:
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NATION:
Seven Years of Vietnam
NATION REVIEW:
There's More to l'affaire Clark
Letter
PRAVDA:
1965 Article - Formerly Moscow-based Australian diplomat, Clark, resigns to protest Australia's Vietnam War policies
THE NATIONAL TIMES:
- Amazing Scenes - How Australia Influences the World
THE INDEPENDENT MONTHLY - PEOPLE - The Real Francis James Story
AUSTRALIAN - Communism in Asia
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE of POLITICAL SCIENCE - Is Asian Communism a Threat to Australia?
THE AUSTRALIAN RATIONALIST - Global Pressures on the Australian and Japan Tribes
An Anaysis of Japanese Direct Investment Overseas in Postwar Years
THE AGE - Time to challenge the fantasy of free trade
THE AUSTRALIAN QUARTERLY The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs -what's wrong with our diplomats?
THE ARMCHAIR AUSTRALIAN - A Tale of Three Cities
THE NATIONAL TIMES - The Crisis in Australian Capitalism: an alternative view
AUSTRALIA - JAPAN RELATIONS SYMPOSIUM 1975 - Japan, Australia & Asia
AUSTRALIAN OUTLOOK - Sino-Japanese Relations - An Analysis
Values and Societies: How the Example of Japan Forces a Radical Reapraisal
Value Systems and Enterprise Management
Article about Gregory Clark's father - Colin Clark
Keynote Address to MT IA National Forum
Employment and Manufacturing in Australia - A View from Outside
AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN POLICY - The See-saw and the Merry-go-round
Remembering a War - The 1962 India-China Conflict
SYDNEY MORNING HEROLD - Letter Refused
Book Chapter - Vietnam, China, and the foreign affairs debate in Australia - A personal account
THE SUNDAY MAIL - Where We Go Wrong in Japan
FINANCIAL REVIEW- The Future of Australian Manufacturing The case for Tariff Tendering
J@pan Inc. ArticlesJ@pan Inc.
March 2003: So Much for Conventional Wisdom
Tokyo Journal - Chiba
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- 日本経済再生の唯一の手段はケインズ的財
- 政出動への切り替え
週刊時事
Naigaijosei: March 12, 2002:
日本経済は重症の血液循環病患者
Keizai Kai: August 27, 2002:
本物の難民が１割しか認められていない現実
Keizai Kai: October 22, 2002:
大人らしく理性均な選択したランスの世論
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
Outlook is mixed for 2009
Looking at 2009, the good news is that the global economy is likely to recover much faster than predicted.
Antiforeigner discrimination is a right for Japanese people
"Japan girai" — dislike of Japan — is an allergy that seems to afflict many Westerners here.
What's wrong with the way English is taught in Japan?
The good news is that Japan's education bureaucrats realize that despite six years of school study many Japanese are still unable to speak English well.
Immorality of bushfires
Australia will recover from its recent bushfire tragedy damage. But can it recover from the shock of discovering how much of the damage was due to arson?
Econ lessons from Japan
Searching the reasons for Japan's "lost decade" has long been popular among U.S. and British commentators seeking an answer to the West's current economic problems.
現在西側諸国が直面している経済問題に対する答えを模索している米英コメンテーターの間で、バブル崩壊以来日本に蔓延していると彼らがいうデフレーションと、成長の頓挫― の原因探しが、以前から流行している。
Barring the people needed
The Calderon affair is seen as an indictment of Japan's confused immigration policies. And rightly.
Australia & Afghanistan
So Australia's Labor Party prime minister, the Chinese-speaking Kevin Rudd, has promised Australia will stay the course with the United States in Afghanistan right to the very end.
Northern Territories Dispute
Visits to Japan by Soviet and Russian leaders over the years have done little to break the Northern Territories deadlock...
Cross straight gap narrows
Two things became apparent during a recent visit to China.
Sri Lanka and Tiananmen: Time to accept the truth
It used to be said the first casualty of war is the truth. But today we do not even need wars to see truth destroyed.
Reflecting on the lessons of Robert McNamara's war
The death of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at age 93 has reopened the debate on his role.
Western media stoking conflict
A little more than a year ago, Russia and Georgia were at war over Georgia's small autonomous republic of South Ossetia.
西側メディアは紛争の火を煽る
一年少し前、ロシアとグルジアは、グルジアの小さな自治共和国南オセチアをめぐり戦争状態にあった。
The Japan Times: August 26, 2009
First ban the hawks, then the
bomb
This year's Hiroshima atomic bombing anniversary
saw more demands for the abolition of nuclear
weapons.
APEC remains toothless
The APEC grouping will hold its annual summit meeting in Singapore this weekend...
China's harmful economic policies
It’s time to start getting tough on Beijing.
Economy chasing its tail
The Japanese have a saying — "sandome no shoujiki."
Fault lines in the Sino-Indian frontier dispute
"When China wakes, the world will tremble", were Napoleon’s prophetic words when in exile in St Helena.