Japan Made in U.S.A. deserves a once-over by anyone who reads, or writes, about Japan.
Book Description
"Japan Made in U.S.A." discusses the huge gap between the images of Japan appearing in U.S. media and the realities of Japan. Edited and published by Zipangu, a New York-based group of Japanese, it analyzes and criticizes Japan coverage -- especially about its culture, society and ways of thinking of Japanese people -- in major American newspapers, especially in the New York Times. In addition to the interview with New York Times' Tokyo Bureau Chief Nicholas D. Kristof who presents his side a dozen of prominent voices in journalism and academism from both sides of the Pacific ---- former Washington Post Tokyo Bureau Chief T.R. Reid, San Francisco Chronicle journalist Charles Burress, Japan scholars such as Carol Gluck, Norma Field and Harry Harootunian and Japanese sociologist Chizuko Ueno etc. -- have contributed their perspectives in essays and interviews. Though launched only in September, 1998 in Japanese and English (bilingual) in Japan, it is already in its third print! ing. "Japan Made in U.S.A." has bee much-talked about and well praised in Japan and abroad.
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