The Impoverished Spirit in Contemporary Japan: Selected Essays of Honda Katuichi Book

	Introduction: Honda Katsuichi and Political and Intellectual Life in Postwar Japan	9
I	Against Amnesia and Complacency: Japanese War Responsibility
	The Fifteen Years' War us a War of Invasion	47
	Eradicating the Memory of the Nanjing Massacre	58
	Against the Logic of Invaders	62
	On Platoon	67
	The Blindness of Japanese Peace Movements: Forgetting Japan's Aggression	69
	The Burden of Being Japanese	75
II	Racism and Neocolonialism in Contemporary Japan
	Racist Country, Japan	99
	Black Students in Japan	101
	The Situation of the Ainu People	105
	The Last Appeal of the Ainu People
	The Appeal of the Ainu People: An Open Letter to the Prime Minister	112
	The "Export" of Women from the Philippines	115
III	The Culture of Conformity and the Impoverished Intellectuals
	A Theory of Tadpole Society	129
	Foreign Embassies in Japan	132
	Why Can't We Squat?	134
	How to Dress at a Restaurant	138
	The Tamed Japanese: The Achievement of the Ministry of Education	140
	The Destruction of Elementary Education	144
	Standardized Education	147
	Why Do Novelists Become Corrupt?	150
	Who Is Responsible for the Attempted Murder of Mayor Motojima?	158
	The Failures of the International PEN Congress	165
IV	The Archipelago of Ecological Disasters
	Disfigured Tadpoles	171
	Vanishing Ptarmigan	175
	Why Resorts?	178
	"Development" as Invasion	180
	Why Dolphins?	183
V	The Politics of Single-Party Dictatorship
	Japanese "Democracy": The Oldest Single-Party Dictatorship	195
	Prime Minister Nakasone as Nazisone	201
	Is Prostitution a Women's Problem?	206
	Anti-Internationalization: Internal and External Versions	211
	Japan's Misfortune in Having Miyazawa as Prime Minister	215
	Afterword: A Manifesto for Independent Journalism	219