Volume 40, Number 6 · March 25, 1993
Americainerie
By Ian Buruma
Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation, 1945–1952
by Kyoko Hirano
Smithsonian, 365 pp., $34.95
A Map of the East
Photographs by Leo Rubinfien
Godine, 132 pp., $25.00 (paper)
Re-Made In Japan: Everyday Life and Consumer Taste in a Changing Society
edited by Joseph J. Tobin
Yale University Press, 264 pp., $27.50
How to Work for a Japanese Boss
by Jina Bacarr
Birch Lane Press, 252 pp., $18.95
A most unusual advertisement appeared in the International Herald Tribune the other day. It was an ad for the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. The Imperial always was a good hotel. It was also one of the most handsome, until Frank Lloyd Wright's original building was replaced by a glossy high-rise in the 1960s. The advertisement went like this:
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