Japan Today: People, Places, Power

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Japan continues to be a subject of compelling fascination for American journalists and scholars, not simply as an object of cultural curiosity, but because popular understanding of the Japanese phenomenon has become essential to the public support of an effective foreign policy. The rusting mementos at Pearl Harbor and the more recent invasion of American streets by vehicles bearing the names Toyota, Honda, or Yamaha all serve to remind us of the need to comprehend and make allowances for the forces which motivate our most extraordinary neighbor in the Pacific.