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Bamboozled!: How America Loses the Intellectual Game With Japan and Its Implications for Our Future in Asia

8 reviews
Ivan P. Hall

East Gate Book, 2002

for reasons I later explain
Ivan Hall's latest book should prove to be controversial for a number of important reasons, chief of which is his contention that Japan continues to outwit and outflank the United States on trade and other important economic matters. He further contends that Japanese society is constructed in such a manner that voices of dissent are stifled, that a large number of American academics, journalists ...

Cartels of the Mind: Japan's Intellectual Closed Shop

10 reviews
Ivan P. Hall

W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

gaijin, longnosed, ignorant smiling devil!
Hey, wake up and smell the coffee! Japan's academic establishment is indeed an insular and hostile environment. All foreign devils who intrude into this realm must be wary for even if they are invited (by contract) they are invading the inner sanctum of Nihonjinron nationalism and will be looked upon as suspect or treated with not so subtle mockery at every turn. In l994 the totalitarian ...