ABSTRACT
Japan today, with her burgeoning economic success, has been thrust into a position of unexpected leadership in the international community. Her mounting trade surplus has put the Japanese in an uncomfortable situation of having to explain their success and what they plan to do about the excess dollars. And the Japanese are not doing it well, for various reasons; it seems from our vantage point across the sea that they have gone into a frenzy with kokusaika (internationalization), an identity crisis with regard to the international community.
