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The Japan Times: January 10, 2008
Mistaken economic policies
Another year, another budget.
まちがった経済政策

年が改まると、予算も改まる
The Japan Times: February 21, 2008
Aussie personalist diplomacy
Australia is never short of surprises.
オーストラリアの私情的外交 

オーストラリアはいつも人を驚ろかしてくれる。

The Japan Times: March 10, 2008
Mistaken economic policies
Tokyo seems to have difficulties in handling economic problems
The Japan Times: March 21, 2008
Tibet and Olympic Games
Events in Tibet have turned ugly.
チベットとオリンピック

チベットの出来事は醜さを増している。
まちがった経済政策

日本は経済問題の扱いで苦労しているようだ。
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The Japan Times: May 12, 2008
Row that demonized China
So now we know, officially, that the U.S. military contemplated a nuclear attack on China during the 1958 Taiwan Strait crisis.
中国を悪魔視するきっかけとなった論争

1958年の台湾海峡危機のときアメリカ軍部は中国に対して核兵器を使うことを考えていたことが、いまようやく公式に判明した。
The Japan Times: June 6, 2008
Japan sidelined on Taiwan
Arriving at Taipei international airport en route to a Taiwanese university conference on Russia, you are hit by the headline of a local magazine on display.
日本は台湾問題でも傍観派に

台湾の大学で開かれたロシア関係の会議に出席する途中で台北国際空港に降りて、店頭に並んでいる地元の雑誌の特集見出しに目を奪われる。
The Japan Times: June 2, 2008
Puzzle awaits G8 delegates
Spare a thought for the puzzle that will meet foreign delegations to the Group of Eight Summit in Hokkaido on July 7.
G8代表を待つパズル
77日北海道の洞爺湖サミットに集まる外国代表を待ち受けるパズルについてちょっと頭を貸して欲しい。彼らは一方で、秒読みのような正確さでことをオーガナイズする国と出会う。
The Japan Times: July 21, 2008
Birth of a massacre myth
With the Beijing Olympics looming we see more attempts to remind the world about the alleged June 4, 1989, massacre of democracy-seeking students in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
虐殺神話の誕生

北京オリンピックが近づくにつれて、いわゆる”198964日北京の天安門における民主化を求める学生の虐殺について世界の記憶を喚起しようとする動きが活発化している。

OTHER ARTICLES

QUADRANT:
The Japanese Tribe: What Makes it Work?
1975
Multiculturally Bemused in Tokyo
QUADRANT - Letters to the Editor:
Western and Other Brutality
Hungary and Vietnam
The Curse of the Left and Right
More Lessons from Munich
A Choice of Protectionisms


THE INDEPENDENT MONTHLY:
Betrayed Again - The Failure of the New Russian Revolution
NATION:
Seven Years of Vietnam
NATION REVIEW:
There's More to l'affaire Clark
Letter

PRAVDA:
1965 Article - Formerly Moscow-based Australian diplomat, Clark, resigns to protest Australia's Vietnam War policies
THE NATIONAL TIMES:
- Amazing Scenes -
How Australia Influences the World
THE INDEPENDENT MONTHLY - PEOPLE - The Real Francis James Story
AUSTRALIAN - Communism in Asia
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE of POLITICAL SCIENCE - Is Asian Communism a Threat to Australia?

THE AUSTRALIAN RATIONALIST - Global Pressures on the Australian and Japan Tribes
An Anaysis of Japanese Direct Investment Overseas in Postwar Years

THE AGE - Time to challenge the fantasy of free trade
THE AUSTRALIAN QUARTERLY The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs -what's wrong with our diplomats?
THE ARMCHAIR AUSTRALIAN - A Tale of Three Cities

THE NATIONAL TIMES - The Crisis in Australian Capitalism: an alternative view

AUSTRALIA - JAPAN RELATIONS SYMPOSIUM 1975 - Japan, Australia & Asia
AUSTRALIAN OUTLOOK - Sino-Japanese Relations - An Analysis
Values and Societies: How the Example of Japan Forces a Radical Reapraisal
Value Systems and Enterprise Management
Article about Gregory Clark's father - Colin Clark
Keynote Address to MT IA National Forum
Employment and Manufacturing in Australia - A View from Outside
AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN POLICY - The See-saw and the Merry-go-round
Remembering a War - The 1962 India-China Conflict
SYDNEY MORNING HEROLD - Letter Refused
Book Chapter - Vietnam, China, and the foreign affairs debate in Australia - A personal account
THE SUNDAY MAIL - Where We Go Wrong in Japan
FINANCIAL REVIEW- The Future of Australian Manufacturing The case for Tariff Tendering
J@pan Inc. ArticlesJ@pan Inc.
March 2003:
So Much for Conventional Wisdom
Tokyo Journal - Chiba
The Japan Times: August 21, 2008
World gives Russia an unfair rap
The Russians are right to use the Kosovo example as a proof of Western hypocrisy
世界は不公平なロシア叩き
ロシアがコソボを西側の偽善の証拠として使うのは正しい
The Japan Times: October 8, 2007
Getting Japan's politics wrong
Western media have reported Japan's new prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, as drab and unexciting and even as "lukewarm pizza."
日本の政治をゆがめて報道

西側メディアは日本の新しい首相福田康夫を、冴えないおもしろくない人物、あるいは
ぬるいピザとまで呼んでいる.
The Japan Times: September 7, 2007
APEC's purpose is missing
Each year we have to ask the same question as world leaders drag themselves across the globe, taking days from their crowded schedules, simply to hand out platitudes on the importance of free trade, the environment or some other trendy topic of the day.
見えてこないAPECの目的

毎年、世界の指導者が自由貿易、環境その他いま流行のテーマについて月並みなことをいうだけのために、多忙なスケジュールを数日割いて、地球の隅々から集まってくるのを見ると、いつも同じ問いを発せずにはいられない。
The Japan Times: August 27, 2007
Hope for peace in partition?
Why is the world so reluctant to accept partition as the answer to ethnic, religious or political conflicts
平和の希望は分割にあり?

民族的、宗教的、あるいは政治的紛争に関して、「分割」という解決策を受け入れることについて、世界はなぜそんなに消極的なのか。
The Japan Times: July 16, 2007
Miyazawa knew economics
Obituaries for former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, who died recently at age 87, agreed that he was a statesman and a genuine internationalist.
バブルの責任なしー宮沢は経済学を知っていた

最近87歳で亡くなった宮沢元首相への追悼文は一様に、彼はステーツマンといえる政治家であり真の国際主義者だったと称えている
The Japan Times: July 2, 2007
Serbia owed justice in Kosovo
No commentator likes to sound like a conspiracy nut.
コソボのセルビア人にもっと正義を

コメンテーターたるもの、陰謀説マニアと呼ばれたくはない。
The Japan Times: May 28, 2007
'SECRET' GOSSIP ABOUT IRAQ
More compelling than common sense

The following statement appeared in an article on the opinion page of The Japan Times in July 2003.
イラクを巡る“マル秘”ゴシップ─ 常識よりも強い影響力

2003年7月のジャパン・タイムズ「オピニオン」欄の記事の中に、次のような文があった。
The Japan Times: November 1, 2007
Trumped up war on 'terror'
My French aunt died the other day. She was lovely woman. But sadly she was also a terrorist.
テロとの戦いを拵えて

私のフランスの叔母が先日亡くなった。可愛い女性だった。ところが悲しいかな、彼女はテロリストでもあったのだ。
The Japan Times: November 15, 2007
The fusillade against China
In some ways China is not my favorite country.
中国を標的にして

私はいくつかの点で中国びいきでない。
The Japan Times: September 4, 2008
Fukuda hounded out of office
Japan's PR-vulnerable public and lightheaded media have done it again.
The Japan Times: September 21, 2008
The Japanese knack for choking in a slump
Japan used to be held up in the United States as a model
スランプ入りのための日本的秘訣
日本は以前、アメリカでは、効率的経済運営と効率的企業経営の両方のモデルケースとして推奨されていた
福田は政権を追われた
宣伝に弱い日本の大衆と軽薄なメディアがまたやった。

The Japan Times: October 6, 2008
Counterproductive antiterrorism
Buried deep in the U.S. Pentagon somewhere is an official ...
逆生産的な反テロリズム
アメリカのペンタゴンのどこか奥深く埋没して、キューバのグァンタナモ湾基地の拘留施設を取り仕切る役人がいる。
The Japan Times: October 22, 2008
West Ganging up on Russia
Western reports say Russia is in deep trouble because foreigners are fleeing ...
ロシアからの報告 
西側の報道によると、グルジアをめぐる最近の紛争の後で、われわれ外国人が株式市場から急激に引上げているため、ロシアはいま大混乱になっているという。

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Life Story - Introduction
Chapter 1 - Growing Up

Chapter 2 - Discovering China
Chapter 3 - Into the USSR
Chapter 4 - Back to Canberra
Chapter 4a - The ANU & Vietnam
War Debate
Chapter 5 - Into Japan
Chapter 5a - Learning the language
Chapter 6 - Back to Australia 1968-9
Chapter 6a - Back to the Vietnam
Debate 1968-9
Chapter 7 - Back To Japan
Chapter 7a - Ping Pong Diplomacy
Chapter 7b - Thoughts on Revolution
& Violence
Chapter 8 - More Journalism in Japan
Chapter 9 - Back to Canberra
Chapter 10 - Deadlocked in Canberra
Chapter 11 - Goodbye Australia
Chapter 11a - A Book About Japan
Chapter 11b - Back in Japan II
Chapter 12 - Book Aftermath
Chapter 12a - Discovering Boso
Chapter 13 - A New Life in Japan
Chapter 14 - Redefining the Theory
Chapter 15 - Explaining Japan's Progress
Chapter 16 - Retailing the Tribe Theory
Chapter 17 - The Amateur Developer
Chapter 18 - Economy Watching
Chapter 19 - Back to Australia?
Chapter 20 - The Great Australian Tribe
Chapter 21 - Re-involved with Japan
Chapter 22 - Economic Dilema
Chapter 23 - Battling Japan's Mistakes
Chapter 24 - Australia’s Economic                     Rationalism Irrationality


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THE JAPAN TIMES - Modern Nation Preserves Outdated Attitudes Key to Japan's Economic Ills is to Correct Inefficiency of Tertiary Industry - Service
TOKYO BUSINESS TODAY-
Index of Articles
JAL WINDS MAGAZINE - Thank you For Hurting our Ears - Taking the Tribal Theory to the Japanese
For Keizaikai - Education
Children
THE DAILY YOMIURI -
Poor Teaching, Not Culture, to Blame
MAINICHI DAILY NEWS - Japan is a Tribe
Ark Hills Club Article
No.1 SHIMBUN - Opinion -
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Rebutting Mikie Kiyoi's Claims
- How to get to China
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In Peking some Old Reminders
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The Passbook Law - South Africa is not Alone
NKK NEWS - The Locomotive Role of Service Industries in Japan's Maturing Economy
THE JAPAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL -
'Japan Unincorporated' actually is better name
MEANJIN QUARTERLY June 1973 -
A New Foreign Policy for Australia?
WINTER 1974 - BETWEEN TWO WORLDS - The Radicalization of a Conservative
NIKKEI WEEKLY - To Expand Demand, First Widen Debate
- 'Free trade' is a tricky banner to unfurl
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Japan And The West May Some Day Have To Adopt Singapore's Ways
JAPAN FOUNDATION NEWSLETTER - The Human-Relations Society and the Ideological Society
JAMA FORUM - Understanding Differences - Why Western Models Can't Comprehend Japan
AMAGI CONFERENCE SPEECH -
The State of Japan
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan - Doing Business in Japan - an Insider's Guide