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