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Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Author's Note
I. Wars and Consequences
Shattering the Mirror That Distorts Japan
War Perspective of Poets Oceans Apart
Was Pearl Harbor Really a Surprise?
Old Prejudices Burn Bright in a War Account
Doing One's Duty in a Desperate Situation
Gyokusai or "Shattering Like a Jewel"
Creator of "Go for Broke"
Debunking America's "Good War" Myth
The Japanese Sword I
The Japanese Sword II
Air Raids
Great Tokyo Air Raid Was a War Crime
Indiscriminate Bombing and Legal Judgment
Unending Ruthless Air Raids
Condemnation Attributed to "Utter Nonsense"
Comfort Women
Redaction of a "Comfort Women" Story
Censorship Distortion of "Comfort Women"
Sex-Slave Wrangling Misses Human Picture
"Comfort Women" Question Is Far from Black and White
The War on Terror
Blunderbuss Followup to the Invasion of Iraq
Terrorism Brouhaha, Then and Now
Indefensible Costs of Military One-Upmanship
A Breed Apart
II. Birds and Other Animals
The Gall of Those Gulls
Bird Bashing
To Keep the Fairway Fair
Emotion Trumps Logic in Whaling Debate
Depredation of Species That Get in Our Way
"Good Old Days" Dispensed with Body Counts
No Country for Millions of Canada Geese
The Transient Rasping That Captivates the Poets
"Where to Go to Survive the Day?" the Corbies Say
Invasives
Rooting Out the Purplish, Yellow Perils
Don't Destroy That Invader, It Was Here First!
Anthropocentric Bent of "Alien" Fish
Don't Exterminate the Zebra Mussels, Ruffes, or Gobies!
Seagulls
III. Teachers and Friends
Lindley Williams Hubbell / Hayashi Shkseki
Eleanor Wolff
Ronald Homer Bayes
Michael O'Brien
Herbert Passin
Earl Miner
Robert Anthony Fagan
Kyoko Iriye Selden
Burton Watson
Rand Castile
John Ashbery
Michi Kobi
Bong-san I
Bong-san II
IV. Talking about Books and Such
An Unnaturally Smooth Naturalization?
The ABC's of Life
Drinking in Mr. Cavett
Kissing Encounters
Panties Talk
Results of Carnal Prohibition Are No Surprise
Genji: The Long and the Short of It
Genji's Poetry of Spirit Possession
Shining a Light on Turkish-Japanese Ties
From the Outside Looking In
Bedfellows of Those "Lax," "Insular" Japanese
"Gaijin" Putting Down Roots in Japan
Remains of the Occupation Mentality
The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowing in the Wind
Zen and the Art of Beatnik Haiku
The Complexities of "They" versus "Xe / Xim / Xir"
Reflecting on History
Japan's First Embassy to Washington
Japan's Close Encounter with the West
Undergoing the Third Degree in Prewar Japan
Looking Back at Seventy Years Before the War's End
Returning from Taiwan after Japan's Defeat
Going with the Flow in a Japanese Trade Office
Books by Hiroaki Sato
Index
Back Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Author's Note
I. Wars and Consequences
Shattering the Mirror That Distorts Japan
War Perspective of Poets Oceans Apart
Was Pearl Harbor Really a Surprise?
Old Prejudices Burn Bright in a War Account
Doing One's Duty in a Desperate Situation
Gyokusai or "Shattering Like a Jewel"
Creator of "Go for Broke"
Debunking America's "Good War" Myth
The Japanese Sword I
The Japanese Sword II
Air Raids
Great Tokyo Air Raid Was a War Crime
Indiscriminate Bombing and Legal Judgment
Unending Ruthless Air Raids
Condemnation Attributed to "Utter Nonsense"
Comfort Women
Redaction of a "Comfort Women" Story
Censorship Distortion of "Comfort Women"
Sex-Slave Wrangling Misses Human Picture
"Comfort Women" Question Is Far from Black and White
The War on Terror
Blunderbuss Followup to the Invasion of Iraq
Terrorism Brouhaha, Then and Now
Indefensible Costs of Military One-Upmanship
A Breed Apart
II. Birds and Other Animals
The Gall of Those Gulls
Bird Bashing
To Keep the Fairway Fair
Emotion Trumps Logic in Whaling Debate
Depredation of Species That Get in Our Way
"Good Old Days" Dispensed with Body Counts
No Country for Millions of Canada Geese
The Transient Rasping That Captivates the Poets
"Where to Go to Survive the Day?" the Corbies Say
Invasives
Rooting Out the Purplish, Yellow Perils
Don't Destroy That Invader, It Was Here First!
Anthropocentric Bent of "Alien" Fish
Don't Exterminate the Zebra Mussels, Ruffes, or Gobies!
Seagulls
III. Teachers and Friends
Lindley Williams Hubbell / Hayashi Shkseki
Eleanor Wolff
Ronald Homer Bayes
Michael O'Brien
Herbert Passin
Earl Miner
Robert Anthony Fagan
Kyoko Iriye Selden
Burton Watson
Rand Castile
John Ashbery
Michi Kobi
Bong-san I
Bong-san II
IV. Talking about Books and Such
An Unnaturally Smooth Naturalization?
The ABC's of Life
Drinking in Mr. Cavett
Kissing Encounters
Panties Talk
Results of Carnal Prohibition Are No Surprise
Genji: The Long and the Short of It
Genji's Poetry of Spirit Possession
Shining a Light on Turkish-Japanese Ties
From the Outside Looking In
Bedfellows of Those "Lax," "Insular" Japanese
"Gaijin" Putting Down Roots in Japan
Remains of the Occupation Mentality
The Answer, My Friend, Is Blowing in the Wind
Zen and the Art of Beatnik Haiku
The Complexities of "They" versus "Xe / Xim / Xir"
Reflecting on History
Japan's First Embassy to Washington
Japan's Close Encounter with the West
Undergoing the Third Degree in Prewar Japan
Looking Back at Seventy Years Before the War's End
Returning from Taiwan after Japan's Defeat
Going with the Flow in a Japanese Trade Office
Books by Hiroaki Sato
Index
Back Cover