LIFE STORY

List of Contents

LIFE STORY


Summary

Chapter 1 – Growing Up

Chapter 2 – From Australia to China

Chapter 3 – Discovering China

Chapter 4 – Canberra’s Blind Sinophobia

Chapter 5 – Into the USSR

Chapter 6 – The Bill Morrison Affair

Chapter 7 – Post-Morrison

Chapter 8 – KGB Traps

Chapter 9 – The Moment of Decision

Chapter 10 – Exit USSR

Chapter 11 – Back to Canberra, and the Vietnam War

Chapter 12 – A Bungled Entrapment Attempt

Chapter 13 – The Vietnam War Debate

Chapter 14 – The Vietnam War Debate; Confused in Canberra

Chapter 15 – Into Japan 1967-68.

Chapter 16 – APEC: At The Creation

Chapter 17 – Learning the language: Problems

Chapter 18 – Learning the Language; Relying on the Sub-Conscious

Chapter 19 – Leaving Japan, via Southeast Asia and the Thai car industry – 1968

Chapter 20 – The China Book Emerges

Chapter 21 – Returning to the Vietnam Debate 1968-9

Chapter 22 – The Ugly Vietnam Debate 1968-9

Chapter 23 – Escaping the Vietnam War Debate

Chapter 24 – Problems in Canberra – 1968-9

Chapter 25 – More Life Decisions: China or Japan?

Chapter 26 – Back to Japan, as a Correspondent – 1969-70

Chapter 27 – As a Correspondent, in Japan

Chapter 28 – Lonely in Tokyo (1969)

Chapter 29 – Japan – China Intrigues 

Chapter 30 – Discover Japan 

Chapter 31 – The Ping-Pong Diplomacy and Australia, 1971

Chapter 31a – Taking a Ping-pong Team Into China

Chapter 31b – Taking a Ping-pong Team Into China; Meeting Zhou Enlai

Chapter 31c – Australian reaction

Chapter 32 – Three Post-Pingpong Visits to China

Chapter 33 – Cultural Revolution Realities

Chapter 34 – Australia’s China Lobby

Chapter 35 – The Rise of Tanaka Kakuei

Chapter 36 – The Fall of Tanaka Kakuei

Chapter 37 – Finishing Up in Tokyo

Chapter 38 – Back To Canberra And The Abortive NARA Treaty

Chapter 39 – The Australia-Japan Foundation Debacle

Chapter 40 – Japan and the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Chapter 41 – The Vietnam Cables Fiasco

Chapter 42 – The East Timor Tragedy

Chapter 43 – Canberra – Ugliness amid Beauty

Chapter 44 – Goodbye Australia

Chapter 45 – A Book About Japan

Chapter 46 – Back in Japan; The Book Published

Chapter 47 – Book Aftermath

Chapter 48 – Embassy Reaction

Chapter 49 – Discovering The Boso Peninsula

Chapter 50 – A New Life In Japan (1978 – early 1980’s)

Chapter 51 – Refining the Tribe Theory

Chapter 52 – The Amateur Land Developer

Chapter 53 – Sabotaged by Austemba Tokyo

Chapter 54 – Back to Australia

Chapter 55 – Australia’s Economic Irrationalism

Chapter 56 – Japan’s Economic Dilemma

Chapter 57 – Exports, Oil Shocks and Mini-Bubbles

Chapter 58 – Media Involvements

Chapter 59 – Japan’s Unbalanced Economy

Chapter 60 – The Japanese Stock-market and the Japanese Mentality

Chapter 61 – The Bubble Insanity

Chapter 62 – Post – Bubble

Chapter 63 – Seeking Education Reform – Failures and Successes’

Chapter 64 – My Media Disasters

Chapter 65 – Breaking with the Sophia Alma Mater.

Chapter 66 – The Tama University Experience

Chapter 67 – Post-Tama Involvements

Chapter 68 – The Amateur Land Developer

Chapter 69 – Into Russia, from the Top

Chapter 70 – Akita International University

Chapter 71 – More Attempts at Education Reform

Chapter 72 – Foreign Policy Problems – Russia

Chapter 73 – Foreign Policy Problems – China

Chapter 74 – Some Japanese Politicians

Chapter 75 – Trouble with the Rightwing2019

Chapter 76 – The Rightwing Strikes

Chapter 77 – Tragedy Strikes

Chapter 78 – A Latino Connection

Chapter 79 – Changing Japan’s Laws

Chapter 80 – Tiananmen

Chapter 81 – Life Story, Chronicle of Events

Chapter 82 – Life Story, Conclusion


BOOK EXCERPT:

THE SINO/INDIAN DISPUTE

THE SINO/SOVIET DISPUTE