Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introductory Musings -- Addendum 23 January 2015 -- Chapter 1 THE RETURN OF THE NEAR-NATIVE -- Chapter 2 THE SOCIAL CONDITIONS FOR ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND THE PIKETTY BOOM -- Chapter 3 OPMF, CENTRAL BANK CONSERVATISM AND FINANCIAL ECONOMICS -- Chapter 4 JAPAN AND CHINA: COLLISION COURSE -- Chapter 5 JAPAN AND NORTH KOREA -- Chapter 6 A NEW BEGINNING? -- Chapter 7 THE NEW COLD WARS -- Chapter 8 FRIENDS, ALLIES AND ENEMIES -- Chapter 9 HUMAN PROGRESS...? -- Index
Summary
Here is a cri de coeur from almost the last survivor of post-war European sociologists and scholars of Japanese Studies. After six decades following developments in Japanese society, economy and culture - he describes the evolution of his cognitive and evaluative/emotional perceptions of Japan, and why he can no longer be a Japanophile
