ABSTRACT

A critique of America's flawed Asia policy that centres on US-Japan relations but harkens back to the same disastrous views that drew America into Vietnam. The technique is a narrative flow of short vignettes woven into longer chapters; the main strands are personal reflections and interviews.

chapter |11 pages

Japan's Burden of the Past

chapter |3 pages

Rape on Okinawa

chapter |5 pages

A Small Islands Anger

chapter |6 pages

Meeting A Remarkable Man

chapter |5 pages

Charlatans and Mentors

chapter |7 pages

God on Their Shoulders

chapter |3 pages

The Politics of Betrayal

chapter |3 pages

Cross-Cultural Homecoming

chapter |3 pages

A U.S. View of Security

chapter |3 pages

A Japanese View of Trade

chapter |3 pages

A U.S. View of Trade

chapter |3 pages

International Marriage

chapter |3 pages

Germans and Japanese

chapter |3 pages

A Buddhist Patriarch

chapter |4 pages

Too Much of a Good Thing

chapter |7 pages

Thwarting Development

chapter |6 pages

The Stifled Individual

chapter |3 pages

Birth of a Family

chapter |4 pages

A Lonely Rebel

chapter |4 pages

Flickering Revolutions

chapter |4 pages

Loyalty and Corruption

chapter |6 pages

Legacy of Tokugawa

chapter |7 pages

The Asian Crisis

chapter |13 pages

Return to Okinawa

chapter |11 pages

A Few Conclusions