BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. 1. Mountain Climbing with Yasuko2. A Son, Dan, is Born3. Goodbye to Tokyo?4. The Whitlam Connection 5. Embassy Advisor?6. Ambassador to Japan? 7. The Menadue Connection8. The Prodigal Returns The five years 1969-1974 as Tokyo correspondent for The Australian

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1.  Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Canberra2.  The “NARA” Treaty – Origins3.  The Treaty Draft – Spies at Work4.  NARA Sabotaged5.  Japan’s Struggle In Vain6.  Resources and a China Connection7.  The Treaty Flip-flopped December 1974.  I

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. The Foundation Idea2. The Foundation Established?3. Foundation Reform?4. Birthday Celebrations5. Language Problems Australians are a weird mob. They talk how proximity gives them a special relationship with Asia, and an understanding denied other more distant Westerners.

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. A walk in Gorky Park2. Communist Regime Internal Information3.The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty 4. Japanese Gaiatsu5. Gaiatsu to the Rescue6. Sugar Gaiatsu7. Meat Gaiatsu8. How Not to Negotiate with Japan9. Shoeki versus Kokueki 10.Fish Gaiatsu I long

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. Sending the Cables2. Enter The Peacock3. And the Reality?4. Rescue Whitlam5. Problem solved?  Not quite.6. Deep Injustice  The NARA Treaty debacle was bad enough.  But an even lower moment was to come later in 1975, in

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. Origins of a Tragedy2. The Canberra Debates3. A Voice of Reason, Bill Pritchett4. The Whitlam Apologists5. Crunch Time 6. Going Public7. The Renouf Factor8. The Devious Mr Renouf9. The Remorseful Mr Woolcott?   The 1960s and 70’s had

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. Yarralumla – The Beauty of Old Canberra.2. The Ugliness.  Dealing with the Canberra Hawks3. Information as Power4. How the Hawks Undermined the Whitlamites5. Ignore the Hawks?6. Post-Vietnam Hawk Point-Scoring7. Larrikin Irresponsibility8. Non-Convict South Australia – The

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1.  Defeated in Canberra2.  Australia’s Manufacturing Miracle Destroyed3.  Menadue for Japan?4.  A Nod to The Australian5.  An ANU Redux6.  Visa Problems. Sophia University?7.  Forced Farewell to the Australian Left8.  Bleak Prospects in Japan The last half of

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. Simul Publishing2. Invited to Write3. Reasons to Write4. Chinese-Japanese Differences5.  Nihonjin-ron6.  An Answer?7.  Disorganised Nihonjin-ron8.  Yamamoto Shichihei – Japanese and Jews9.  Why the Differences, Weird Theories10. Culture versus Values11. Anti-Nihonjin ron12. ‘System’ theorists The idea of

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and BETWEEN FOUR LANGUAGES 1. House Hunting2. Finishing the Book 3. Publishing the Book4. Launching the Book5. A Newsweek Connection6. Book Reaction7. God Professor It was, they said, the wettest and coldest spring on record.  Looking out over the drenched blossoms

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. 1.The Japanese Lecture Circuit2.Organising a Lecture3.Rewards When I published the Japan as a Tribe book, I had assumed that the only material returns would be royalties from the publisher, Simul. But if I had known about the rewards

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. 1. Australian Embassy, Tokyo2. Embassy Blacklisting3. Decoding Realties4. Friends at Court The joys of the lecture circuit did not come without a price. The Newsweek story had caused some damage to Canberra’s relations with Tokyo.  Or at

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. Paradise Sought 2. Paradise Found (plus some thoughts on economic development) 3. Yoro Keikoku 4. Becoming a Land Owner (plus some thoughts on how to learn English) For years Yasuko and I had enjoyed weekend hikes in the hills

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS AND FOUR LANGUAGES BEGINNING THE NEW LIFE IN JAPAN (1978 – early 1980’s) 1. Finding a House2. Finding an Office 3. Mountain Climbing (photo)4. Involved in Boso5. More Book Creation6. The Japanese Government Committee7. Committee Games 8. The Role of the

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and BETWEEN FOUR LANGUAGES REFINING THE TRIBE THEORY  1. The Original Theory 2. Origins of Differences3. Principles versus Rules4. Japanese Perfectionism5. On Rationality 6. Finding Terminology 7. Small Group Values versus Large Group Values8. ‘Rationalism’ to the rescue?9. Kansei versus Risei10. Class-group versus

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. More Shangri-la2. The Land Boom is Coming3. The Problem Maker, IWNC4. The Lockwood House5. Becoming a Builder6. Creating a Community7. Lessons in Development Economics8. The Japanese Weekend9. Chiba is Cheaper10. Have Your Own Mountain! 11. Over-Extended With

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. 1. The J.P.Keating Scholarship 2. The Surprise Scholarship Offer3. Embassy Plots?4. Battling the Bureaucrats5. Bureaucracy Gone Mad6. Ex-Vietnam Types7. More Spies? 8. A Squalid Affair Meanwhile my problems with the Australian official presence in Tokyo were continuing.   Apart

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. 1. Raising Two Bilingual Children2. Reviving Australian Connections?3. Blocked on Every Side4. A Failed Canberra Connection5. Australian Policy Flip-flops. By the mid-eighties life had settled into a routine.  The lecture circuit ground on. And the committee circuit

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. AUSTRALIA’S ECONOMIC IRRATIONALISM 1. Australia’s Troubled Economy2. Rely on the Foreigners3. The Terumo Story – Killing the Golden Goose4. The Exchange Rate to the Rescue5. The Great Australian Car Industry Confusion6. Australia’s Past Manufacturing Prowess7. The Tariff

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Japan’s Economic Dilemma 1. Failure of  Hashimoto Restrictions2. A Chronic Lack of Domestic Demand3. High Savings Harmful?4. The Unbalanced Post-1973 Economy5. The Bicycle Economy 6. The Self-Standing Economy  My impudent belief that I could tell Japan how to solve

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Exports, Oil Shocks and Mini-Bubbles 1. Exports, Oil Shocks and Mini-Bubbles2. Oil Shocks to the Rescue3. Asset Bubbles also to the Rescue 1. Exports, Oil Shocks and Mini-Bubbles  As domestic demand relative to supply began to fall

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Meanwhile here in Japan things were happening which made me realise I did not need to be chasing  vague Australian possibilities. For some Japanese reason the media had decided they wanted my thoughts. NHK. Sometime in the

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. JAPAN’S UNBALANCED ECONOMY  1. Trade Problems 2. Endaka (yen appreciation) Problems3. Harmful Exchange-rate Protectionism4. Textbook versus Sensible Protectionism5. Trade Frictions6. Merits of Local Production7. Manufacturing versus Services8. Anti-Service Sector Bias9. The Colin Clark Factor As we enter the

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. 1. Herd Instincts2. ‘It’s Crazy Therefore We Like It’3. The Honshu Paper Scandal4. A Nation of Cowards?5. Beyond Reason ( Rikkutsu Nuki ) As we moved into the eighties the economy continued to prosper, despite the shock

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. 1. The Tanaka Kakuei boom2. Asset Price Insanity Begins3. Bubble Beginnings4. Bank Foolishness5. The EIE Scandal6. Bloated Collateral Values7. The Anti-Bubble Realists8. The Shiodome Fiasco9. Mythical Assets (Fukumi Shisan)10.The ‘Resort’ Boom11.’Yutori’ to the rescue12 .Bubble Finale The stock-market was one problem.

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and BETWEEN FOUR LANGUAGES:  Post – Bubble 1. Back to Front Land Taxes2. Living with the Bubble3. More Japanese Book Writing4. Campus Life5.  Pride before a Fall With the Bubble out of the way we could finally begin to clean

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS AND FOUR LANGUAGES. Seeking Education Reform 1. The Committees2. The Education Ministry3. The National Peoples Commission of Education Reform4.The University Education Sub-Committee.5. The High-school English Language Committee6. Reform Impossible? A Book Education ‘reform’ was another problem needing attention. 1. The

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. My Media Disasters 1.  Economic Reform Dogmas2.  Nikkei3.  Retaliation via Voice4.  Foreign Advice also Rejected5.  Asahi and Others Too6.  TV, NHK too7.  Western Media Too Throughout the seventies and well into the eighties I had enjoyed good

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Breaking from the Sophia Alma Mater 1. Academic Stimulus Lacking2. One Very Satisfying Course3. The Brave French Student4. The Derelict American Student5.  Living with Legalism6. Tama University – An Attractive Offer By 1996 my relationship with the

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. The Tama University Experience 1.  Tama University2.  Motivation in the Classroom?3.  Provisional Entry (Zantei Nyugaku)4.  Other Improvements.5.  Merits of the Zemi (Seminar) System6.  The Successful Graduate School7.  Trying to Repair English Teaching8.  Winding Down In 1997 I

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. An IDE (Institute of Developing Economies) Offer2.The Elite Japanese University Problem3. The Amateur Columnist and the Yugoslavia Problem4. The Kiwi Farm My six years as president at Tama had started to run out. I began to

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. 1. The Russian Ambassador to Japan2. The Russian Embassy, Tokyo3. An Incredible Russian Invitation 4. Into Moscow5. Into Crimea6. Back to Japan I long had a good connection with Alexander Panov, former Soviet and then Russian ambassador to

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA;BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES Akita International University 1. The Initial Request – Vice-President2.  Nakajima Mineo3.  Akita International University4.  Problems and Praises5.  Another Career Change?6.  The Ark Hills Club With the children graduated and the lecture circuit out of the way, I

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. A Book on Education Reform2. Akita International University3. Trying to Improve English Language Teaching4. Teaching Current Affairs5. Japanese for Foreign Students6. Trying Improve  Business Japanese Reading Ability7. The Greatest Satisfaction When I finished at Tama I felt I

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. 1. Northern Territories2.The Two Island Demand3. The Four Island Demand4. A Possible Compromise5. The Group of Four – 2000-20016. Foreign Ministry Mentality7. Trade Frictions 8. The Tanaka Makiko Committee A major topic on the lecture circuit (and a

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. War Responsibility2. War Origins3. Japanese Atrocities4. Territorial Disputes5. Senkaku Islands6. South China Sea7. Taiwan8. Japan-Germany War Differences9. Japan-China Differences If Russia was a sensitive lecture topic, China was even more so. Even in talks to progressive

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. Political People2. Prime Ministers  – Miyazawa, Hosokawa, Obuchi, Mori, 3. The Koizumi Disaster  A historian friend once told me how important it was that people like myself who have lived through what he called ‘slabs of history’

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. Premonitions2. The Warning3. The Abductee Issue With time I began to feel my lecture audiences were not reacting quite as sympathetically as before.  Maybe it was partly my fault; my irritations over Japan’s foolish economic, foreign

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. The NBR Discussion Site2. Discussing the Megumi affair3. Enter the Viper: Komori Yoshihisa4. Sankei Shimbun5. The Exclusion Begins6. The Mitsui Connection7. The Bone Pointed8. Skin-deep Regret My Japan career had begun through trying to explain the

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES 1. The House in Amatsu2. A Disaster Occurs3. Leukemia4. Tribal Exclusion5. A Failed Operation6. All is not Doom In a long career I have been fortunate to meet some wonderful women who have cared for me, helped me

BETWEEN FIVE WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN, PERU AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FIVE LANGUAGES 1. Nakadaki Development Sold2. Enter Peru3. Latin America: Beauty amid Poverty At age 70, blackballed in Japan over the phoney North Korea abductee issue, and with Japanese universities behind me, I set about creating a new

BETWEEN FIVE WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN, PERU AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FIVE LANGUAGES 1. Learning Spanish2. The Visa Problem3. The Immigration Reform Committee4. Asylum Seekers5. Worker Immigration Problem6. Visa Overstayers7. The Ten Year Wait8. Rescue Carolina9. Discovering Peru My interest in Spain had been kindled while at university in

BETWEEN FIVE WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN, PERU AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FIVE LANGUAGES Tiananmen – A Story of Brutality and Mendacity Probably the most soul destroying – certainly the most disillusioning and time-consuming – event in my journalistic career was the so-called Tiananmen massacre event.  From the beginning it

BETWEEN FIVE WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN, LATIN AMERICA AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FIVE CAREERS and FIVE LANGUAGES How to summarise the events, ideas, and conclusions from a 65 year long career spanning five continents, five jobs and five languages, but focussed largely on China, Russia and Japan? In the wings, so to

BETWEEN FIVE WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN, PERU AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FIVE LANGUAGES 1.  Sino-Indian Dispute2.  Vietnam3.  Afghanistan4.  Ukraine5.  Korea (and Vietnam)6.  Yugoslavia and Serbia7.  NATO Pretexts8.  The Vicious Circle9.  Anglo-Saxon ‘Values’10.Khrushchev-anti Cold War11.Memory Notes More than sixty years, spent in five continents, gaining fluency in three difficult languages,

BETWEEN FIVE WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN, PERU AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FIVE LANGUAGES Japan – Is it Unique? 1.  Japanese Honesty. Can it be found Elsewhere?2.  The Outsider View3.  National Togetherness4.  The Empirical Test5.  Indonesia, the Philippines6.  South Europe,South Asia7.  North Europe8.  Meanwhile in Japan9. Meanwhile in China10.China: The