The Impoverished Spirit in Contemporary Japan

by Lie, John; Fujieda, Eri; Hamazaki, Masayuki

• ISBN13: 9780853458586
• ISBN10: 0853458588
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Monthly Review Pr
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Honda Katsuichi and Political and Intellectual Life in Postwar Japan	p. 9
Against Amnesia and Complacency: Japanese War Responsibility
The Fifteen Years' War us a War of Invasion	p. 47
Eradicating the Memory of the Nanjing Massacre	p. 58
Against the Logic of Invaders	p. 62
On Platoon	p. 67
The Blindness of Japanese Peace Movements: Forgetting Japan's Aggression	p. 69
The Burden of Being Japanese	p. 75
Racism and Neocolonialism in Contemporary Japan
Racist Country, Japan	p. 99
Black Students in Japan	p. 101
The Situation of the Ainu People	p. 105
The Last Appeal of the Ainu People
The Appeal of the Ainu People: An Open Letter to the Prime Minister	p. 112
The "Export" of Women from the Philippines	p. 115
The Culture of Conformity and the Impoverished Intellectuals
A Theory of Tadpole Society	p. 129
Foreign Embassies in Japan	p. 132
Why Can't We Squat?	p. 134
How to Dress at a Restaurant	p. 138
The Tamed Japanese: The Achievement of the Ministry of Education	p. 140
The Destruction of Elementary Education	p. 144
Standardized Education	p. 147
Why Do Novelists Become Corrupt?	p. 150
Who Is Responsible for the Attempted Murder of Mayor Motojima?	p. 158
The Failures of the International PEN Congress	p. 165
The Archipelago of Ecological Disasters
Disfigured Tadpoles	p. 171
Vanishing Ptarmigan	p. 175
Why Resorts?	p. 178
"Development" as Invasion	p. 180
Why Dolphins?	p. 183
The Politics of Single-Party Dictatorship
Japanese "Democracy": The Oldest Single-Party Dictatorship	p. 195
Prime Minister Nakasone as Nazisone	p. 201
Is Prostitution a Women's Problem?	p. 206
Anti-Internationalization: Internal and External Versions	p. 211
Japan's Misfortune in Having Miyazawa as Prime Minister	p. 215
Afterword: A Manifesto for Independent Journalism	p. 219
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