Volume 36, Number 19 · December 7, 1989
Just Say Noh
By Ian Buruma
The Japan That Can Say 'No': The Card for a New US–Japan Relationship
by Morita Akio, by Ishihara Shintaro
Kobunsha, 160 pp., 800 yen
Is there a possible connection between the Sony Walkman and the Japanese emperor? Or, if that sounds too farfetched, is there a link between haiku poems and the FSX jet fighter? Or, if that is too outré, what about computer technology and the uniqueness of the Japanese brain? In sum, can Japanese proficiency in high technology be a function of Japanese culture?
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