| Description |
xxviii, 324 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
"An East Gate book"--T.p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-308) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The old deal : why our muddled thinking matters -- I : ILLUSION : "ON A CLOTH UNTRUE" : JAPANESE MENTALITIES, AMERICAN MISREADINGS : Economic mirage : the Asian crisis and "change" -- Anti-Americanism : Sayonara as the ultimate blackmail -- New old right : reactionaries in neoconservative garb -- Limping liberalism : civil courage derided as "leftist lite" -- Pan-Asianism : behind the bromides of East-West bridging -- Samurai ethic : premature prognoses of individualism -- II : COLLUSION : "WITH A TWISTED CUE" : BINATIONAL CARTEL FOR SWEETNESS AND LIGHT : Special pleading : our rhetorical trouncing on trade -- Ostracism : sidelining the heterodox -- Yen : the Pavlovian trot for Japan's academic largesse -- Dollars : the long retreat of American philanthrophy -- Organization : the mutual understanding industry -- People : of buffers, barnacles, and gatekeepers -- III : SELF-DELUSION : "AND ELLIPTICAL BILLIARD BALLS" : AMERICAN ROOTS OF WISHFUL THINKING : Gullible's Travels : our four faulty vision things -- Roller coaster : the prewar matrix of plus-minus images -- MacArthur maxim : democratic missionizing through the 1950s -- Reischauer rubric : cultural sensitizing from the 1960s -- Number-Oneism : economic giantizing in the 1970s -- Brief awakening : revisionist turnaround in the 1980s -- Dumbing down : PC and othe intellectual follies of the 1990s -- Conclusion : The Punishment fits the crime. |
| Subject |
United States -- Relations -- Japan.
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Japan -- Relations -- United States.
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Japan -- Foreign public opinion, American.
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Public opinion.
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United States -- Foreign relations -- Psychological aspects.
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| ISBN |
076561006X (pbk.) |
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0765610051 (alk. paper) |
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