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