Call of Japan

A Continuing Story-1950 to the Present Day

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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Part personal memoir, part socio-cultural commentary, The Call of Japan chronicles the author’s experiences of 40 years' living in Japan, from 1950 to 2003 as a banker and writer. The book comments on the country’s economic, political and cultural realities during the crucial early years of post-war reconstruction and more recent times.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-06-25
Mått140 x 220 x 28 mm
Vikt582 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagGlobal Books
ISBN9781912961146

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PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionPart IThe Wooing (1950-1958)19501 Now You Love It…2 Should We Trust Our First Impressions?3 The Emperor and the General4 The Old Tokaido Line to Osaka5 Of Hot Baths and Fragrant Tea6 The Halfway-up Bank7 A Rhythmic Neighbourhood and the Broken White Soldiers8 The Midnight Whistle19519 Work, Leisure, Home Life10 The Floating World11 Through a Paper Screen Darkly195212 Punishment for Going Missing195313 A Well-oiled Little Cogwheel14 Those Restless Bones195415 Joining the Kantomon16 Upstairs/Downstairs in the Japanese Economy17 A Tale of Two Cultures195518 How to Fish and How to Say Goodbye195619 Back in Holland…20 A Fresh Start: Osaka195721 The Teachings of IJsbrand22 Kyoto and the Magatama Attitude23 Another Way of Seeing24 More Kyoto Adventures195825 Osaka Realities26 Escapes and Escapades27 Casting the DiePart IIThe Winning (1959-1966)19591 Dark Rumblings Beneath a Pristine New Year2 An Orderly Wedding – and a Honeymoon of Sorts3 A Witch in the House4 Shifting Sands19605 A Narrow Escape6 Political Turmoil in Tokyo – and an ‘Economic’Response19617 ‘Getting to Know You…’ or What Went on in the Hot-springs19628 Crisis Management (by the Seat of the Pants)9 The Foul Smell of Success, and the Need for Faith 110 Capital Living196311 The Looming Olympics … and the Overflowing Cup12 The Seamy Side: Defeating the Yakuza196413 Nothing Changes, Except Everything Else14 ‘See No Evil…’196515 A Superior Society?16 Chameleon Man196617 A Thoroughly Ordinary YearPart IIIThe Waning (1967-1974)19671 Beyond the Social Whirl2 Pornographic Chic3 The Seven Generations Curse: A Case History4 Falling Scales19685 A Great and Alien Land6 Kafka’s Ape and a Tower in the Air19697 Amae or How to Have it Both Ways19708 The Growing Conflict9 Business as Usual10 A Beautiful Death?197111 ‘Go Placidly Among the Noise and Haste…’197212 Nixon in China and the Tanaka Phenomenon197313 The Art of Evasion14 Decision Time15 The Good and the Bad: An Assessment (1973)16 An Unlikely Story197417 Creeping Doubts18 Trailing RootsPart IVThe View From Abroad (1974-2002)1 Preamble19742 Ageing Albion19753 Pessimistic Nippon19764 Back to Banking - in Curaçao…19775 A Business Trip to Japan - and T?fukuji Revisited19786 Japan Again - and Remembering the Departed19797 The Final Months in Curaçao - and the Move to Holland19818 Japan’s Lengthening Reach - and a New Start for Me19829 AMRO’s NewYork Branch Opened - but Japan Still a Factor198310 Walking the Bride Down the Aisle…198411 Pulled Between Two Cities…198512 U.S. Banks Upset by Japan’s Market Aggression13 Last Rites for a Lady198614 An AMRO Tokyo Conference - and Special “Service” at a Restaurant15 A Memorial Service in Nagoya198816 Goodbye to Banking - and Japan’s Bubble Economy198917 The End of the Showa Era - and the Fall of the Wall1990-199818 The Restless Years1999-200319 In London - but Focusing on JapanPart VBack on Familiar Soil (2003 to the Present)Preamble1 The Difference 70 years make2 Japan’s Fundamental Problems and Vulnerabilities(a) Lack of Natural Resources(b) Frequency of Earthquakes and other Calamities(c) Declining Population(d) Troubled Relations with its Neighbours(e) Lack of Decisiveness in Addressing Fundamental Problems3 My late Wife’s Unique Personality4 An Overview of my Writings and other Activities(a) My Writings(b) Photography5 What We Can Learn from JapanAfterwordGlossaryIndex