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 1967-8
Chapter 6a - Back to the Vietnam
Debate 1968-9
Chapter 7 - Back To Japan
Chapter 7a - Ping Pong Diplomacy
Chapter 7aa - Post Pingpong Visits to China
Chapter 7b - Australia's Pro-China Lobby
Chapter 7c - Cultural Revolution Realities
Chapter 7d - Thoughts on Revolution and 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 - Watching Japan's Economy
Chapter 19 - Back to Australia?
Chapter 19a - Sabotaged in Tokyo
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 26a - Rescuing the Education System?
Chapter 26b - Getting Re-Involved
Chapter 27 - Finale
= Revised Chapters
BOOK REVIEWED- Book Causes Stir-Japan seen as tribal society
BOOK REVIEWS: - India's China War by Neville Maxwell
Tradition versus Modernity in Japanese Enterprise Management Human Capitalism: The Japanese Enterprise System as World Model. by Robert Ozaki
THE JAPAN TIMES - Modern Nation Preserves Outdated Attitudes Key to Japan's Economic Ills is to Correct Inefficiency of Tertiary Industry - Service
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
Tokyo-Moscow Relations - posted in Asia Times, Jan 22 issue
Pearls and Inspirations - posted on John Menadue’s blog, Nov, 19, 2019
Asia Times article - Nov 5, 2019:
APEC on the Chopping Block?
Article written 2017 and regarded too controversial for the public
Liu Xiaobo and the Tiananmen Non-Massacre 劉暁波と天安門の非虐殺
Timid Chilcot Report is Just a Starting Point
*Refused Publication*
Flight MH 370, April 14, 2014
China Watching, March 12, 2014
Letter Refused by The New York Times:
Re your article 'A new look at Tiananmen protests' April 1, 2015
Japan Times Reader's In Council - Dec 13, 2012
Marching orders to the Japanese
Japan Times Reader's In Council - Nov 18, 2012
Government's Strange Refusal
Financial Times - July 16, 2012
My time in Japan’s closed nuclear village
No1 Shimbun Article - Dec 2010:
Press Freedom in Japan - Just a Mirage?
Debating the Optimistic versus Pessimistic Views of China - March 2010
Origins of APEC - September 2009
The Tianamen Square Massacre Myth - Expanded Version
The Strange Story of Debito Ardou a.k.a. David Aldwinckle
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:
Betrayed Again - The Failure of the New Russian Revolution
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
More Articles (Japanese):
- 週刊東洋経済
- 日本を読む、いま日本に何が必要か
- テロ」という青葉の隠された意味を知らない日本人
- 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
“真っ赤なうそ”と歪曲── 米欧流戦争のつくり方
2014年は、〈世界のあらゆる戦争を終わらせるハズだった〉第一次世界大戦開始の100周年というだけではない。
‘Shining lies’ and distortion: how the West creates wars
2014 was not just the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I
Air Crash
In less than a year Malaysia Airlines has lost two aircraft with a total of 537 people on board.
南シナ海紛争で中国はひどくこらしめられているが...
中国は、南シナ海― とくにスプラトリー(南沙）群島とパラセル群島―に対する領有権主張と開発努力に関して、かなり的外れな非難を浴びている。
Beijing is getting a bad rap in South China Sea disputes
Beijing gets a largely undeserved bad rap…
アメリカついにベトナムを理解
国が変心するのはよくあることだ。だがベトナムをめぐる変心の諸相には、いささか呆然とさせられる。
At long last, the U.S. understands Vietnam
Nations often change their minds. But over Vietnam the changes have been little short of, well, mind boggling.
ロシアはわかってほしい
ウクライナで血が流され、制裁が厳しさを増す中で、ロシアは、外部の人々が現地に来て、ロシアの立場を理解してくれることを望んでいる。
Russia wants to be understood
As Ukraine bleeds and sanctions take hold, Russia wants outsiders to come and understand its position.
不当に悪魔視されるロシア
冷戦時代に、モスクワが悪魔扱いされたのは、もしかしたらすべて故なきことではないかもしれない。
Russia unfairly demonized
In Cold War days Moscow probably deserved all the demonization it got.
北朝鮮をめぐる愚行
二つの要因が、今日我々の見る北朝鮮を規定している。
Foolishness over North Korea
Two factors define the North Korea we see today.
Australia’s slow move toward China is on track
Judging by the euphoria over Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s successful China visit…
A ‘new approach’ for the Russian territorial dispute?
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says that in his May 6 talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, it was agreed that a “new approach” was needed
Distorted news on Russia
Udo Ulfkotte is a former editor for a major German daily newspaper, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
Taiwan-China ties
The criticisms of Beijing’s alleged island-grabbing activities in the South China Sea overlook what some would see as the biggest island-grab of them all...
Australia’s China policy adrift
Animals play quite a role in Australia’s up-and-down relations with China.
Syria’s civil war and the bias in Western media
Regardless of the wrongs of the Syrian civil war — and they are many…
Трамп будет должен преодолеть «нуль» внешней политики США
Trump will have to overcome the U.S. foreign policy ‘Blob’
U.S. President Barack Obama speechwriter Ben Rhodes once described the U.S. media…
戦略的保護主義は途上国経済の一助となりうる
ペルーが今年のAPEC（アジア太平洋経済協力会議）年次総会のホスト国となった事実は実に皮肉なことだ。
Targeted protectionism can aid developing economies
There was much irony in the fact that Peru this year came to host the recent annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
A Machiavellian U.S. and Japan’s Northern Territories
The coming visit to Japan by Russian President Vladimir Putin is already following a familiar pattern.
外交政策における過剰なモラリズムのもたらす害
「ダブルタップ」という、米国のドローン戦術をご存じだろうか。まず敵のターゲットを一度攻撃する。
The perils of excessive moralism in foreign policy
The “Double tap” was the name given to the U.S. drone warfare technique of first attacking a hostile target …
Trump and anti-Russia frenzy
The distaste for U.S. President Donald Trump is understandable — his ugly attacks on critics, crude language, grandiose promises, dishonesty in past business deals.
Trump vs. loose economics
Fashions change. From the miniskirt we moved to the drape dress.
Canberra’s national identity problem
Australia has announced sweeping reforms to its rules on immigration and citizenship.
When spies are out of control
The U.S. spy community — those nice people who told us they were certain the Iraq of President Saddam Hussein was holding weapons of mass destruction…
False claims and false flag stories:
Western governments and media are free to say whatever they like, no matter how phoney.
Global warming and nuclear power:
A sober approach is needed to deal with the consequences of a natural phenomenon…
Elections, abductees, nuclear weapons and North Korea
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s decision to call an early Lower House election, due this Sunday, was a puzzle.
The Truth about 'Tankman’
Ask any news addict and he/she will tell you it shows a brave Chinese student trying to stop a column of Chinese army tanks.
戦車男の真実
Pretexts over North Korea
How Prime Minister Abe manipulated the abductee problem to demonise North Korea and create deadlock.
北朝鮮をめぐる口実
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