Author: GREGORY CLARK

LIFE STORY

Chapter 44 – Goodbye Australia

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES A Destiny Change 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

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Chapter 45 – A Book About Japan

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

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Chapter 47 – Book Aftermath

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

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Chapter 48 – Embassy Reaction

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Losing Friends; Making Friends 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

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Chapter 51 – Refining the Tribe Theory

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA; BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and BETWEEN FOUR LANGUAGES ‘The Japanese mentality is, in most cases, unfit for abstract thinking and takes interest merely in tangible things… Yukawa Hideki.  1. The Original Theory 2. Origins of Differences3. Principles versus Rules4. Japanese Perfectionism5. On Rationality 6. Finding Terminology 7.

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Chapter 53 – Sabotaged by Austemba Tokyo

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. And by a Murdoch writer too 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

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Chapter 54 – Back to Australia

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 Japanese lecture circuit ground on. And the committee

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Chapter 56 – Japan’s Economic Dilemma

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. 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 its economic problems

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Chapter 59 – Japan’s Unbalanced Economy

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Try Walking on Two Legs 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

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Chapter 61 – The Bubble Insanity

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Something wrong with the Japanese mentality? 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.

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Chapter 62 – Post – Bubble

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and BETWEEN FOUR LANGUAGES:  Post – Bubble; the Morning After 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

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Chapter 63 – Seeking Education Reform – Failures and Successes’

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS AND FOUR LANGUAGES. The Road to 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.

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Chapter 64 – More Media Disasters

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Dogged by a word: ‘Reform’  1.  Economic Reform Dogmas2.  Nikkei’s ‘Structural Reform’ Hangup3.  Retaliation via Voice4.  Foreign Advice also Rejected5.  Asahi and Others Too6.  TV, NHK too7.  Western Media Too Throughout the seventies and well into the

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Chapter 66 – The Tama University Experience

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Seeking System Improvements 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 am

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Chapter 72 – Foreign Policy Problems, Russia

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. The Territorial Disputes 1. The Kuriles (Northern Territories) Dispute2. Shikotan and the Habomais [Map of the disputed islands (CartoGIS, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University)] 3. The Northern Territories4.  Break the Deadlock? My Suggestion. 5.

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Chapter 72a – Bizarre Punishments

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGES. Bizarre Punishments: How Tokyo Punished People working for (a) the Liberation of North Korea, and (b) Improved Relations with Russia 1. The Abductee Affair…Tahara Soichiro…Ubakata Yukio…Self 2. The Group of Four Affair…Suzuki Muneo…Sato Masaru…Togo Kazuhiko…Alexander Panov Background

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Chapter 76 – The North Korean Abductee Issue

BETWEEN FOUR WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FOUR LANGUAGE 1. Finding the Abductees, 1970s-80s2. NK-Japan Relations Changed3. More Abductees?4. The Megumi Affair5. Megumi and the The Rightwing-Sponsored Family Groups6. The Pyongyang Declaration Dies7. Megumi Myth Exposed8. Imposed Silence9. The Myth Continues10. No Honest Negotiators11. The Hardliners Take Over

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Chapter 77 – Tragedy Strikes

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 many wonderful women.  Some have cared for me, or helped

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Chapter 78 – A Latino Connection

BETWEEN FIVE WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN, PERU AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FIVE LANGUAGES Discovering a New World – Latin America 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 no more Japanese

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Chapter 79 – Changing Japan’s Laws

BETWEEN FIVE WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN, PERU AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FIVE LANGUAGES 1. The Visa Problem2. Damsel in Distress3. The Immigration Reform Committee4. Asylum Seekers5. Worker Immigration Problem6. Visa Overstayers7. The Ten Year Wait8. Rescue Carolina9. Discovering Peru 1. The Visa Problem Like most foreign workers in Japan in those days, the

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Chapter 79a – The Rightwing Strikes

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

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Chapter 80 – Tiananmen

BETWEEN FIVE WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN, PERU AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FIVE LANGUAGES  A Story of Media Stupidity and Mendacity 1. The Tankman photo2. The Hanging Corpse Photo3. Atrocities Photos4. Political Background to the Mayhem5. The Historical Background6. The Reluctant Repression7. Inside the Massacre ‘Myth’8.State Department Records9. All the News the is Fit to

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Chapter 82 – Life Story, Political Summary

BETWEEN FIVE WORLDS: CHINA, RUSSIA, JAPAN, PERU AND AUSTRALIA.BETWEEN FOUR CAREERS and FIVE LANGUAGES 1.  Sino-Indian Dispute2.  Vietnam3.  Afghanistan, Iraq4.  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

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Final Chapter

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

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INDIA’S CHINA WAR

India’s China War, by Neville Maxwell.(Jonathan Cape.) 475 pages. William Bundy, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State, has made oneof the more perceptive comments on U.S. Vietnam policy. Writing about the “Pentagon Papers” in the French foreign affairs magazine, Preuves, he identifies “a fearful view of China” as the main

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Timid Chilcot report is just a starting point

Timid Chilcot report is just a starting point BY GREGORY CLARK 消極的なチルコット報告書は単なる始まりに過ぎない The reaction to the just-released Chilcot report with its seven-year intensive examination of the United Kingdom’s 2003 intervention in Iraq has been extraordinary. We have had endless debate over whether the intervention had U.N. or other legal approval.

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