ABSTRACT
The June 1989 issue of Days Japan, a slick upscale populist magazine published in Tokyo, featured an article2 which at first glance appeared to be just one more story about the men who helped create Japan's postwar miracle of economic success. The fifteen-page spread was titled dramatically "Black Blood and White Genes." It contained dozens of photographs of men of science who had assisted in making the Green Cross Company, Japan's preeminent blood-processing facility, one of the great international success stories of the past forty years. "Black Blood and White Genes" also displayed a montage of photographs of nine past presidents of Japan's prestigious Institute for Preventive Medicine.
