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| 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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