From: mike@neopath.wa.com (Mike Rosenlof)
Subject: s.c.j FAQ bibliography
Followup-To: poster
Summary: should we make it smaller?
Keywords: revision, pruning
Reply-To: mike@neopath.wa.com
Organization: NeoPath
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:11:49 GMT


Akemashite Omodetou

!!!Please E-mail, don't post, responses!!!

I'm in the process of revising the FAQ list for this group, and would
like the input of some collective net wisdom.

The current FAQ list contains a rather extensive bibliography about
Japan. I don't really want to duplicate a library catalog here, and I
assume that someone who is moderately knowledgable about Japan would
know about resources to use to increase that knowledge. Therefore, I
would like to cut down the bibliography to a few "good general
introductions to Japanese culture", with some emphasis on
"introduction".

Soooo, what I'm asking is 

    do you out there agree that this is a noble goal?

    and if so, what books would you recomend?

I've included the author (%A) and title (%T) lines from the current
bibliography, and I'd appreciate "Keep" or "Drop" votes.  Remember the
goal of "good general introductions to Japanese culture", with some
emphasis on "introduction".

Please E-mail responses to me, and I will excercise some (hopefully
reasonable) judgement about what to do from there...

thanks!
mike@neopath.wa.com

---------- here's da list ---------

%A Edwin O. Reischauer
%T The Japanese Today: Change and Continuity

%A Robert C. Christopher
%T The Japanese Mind

%A Charles Grinnel Cleaver
%T Japanese and Americans

%A Ronald Dore
%T Taking Japan Seriously

%A Frank Gibney
%T Japan: The Fragile Super Power

%A Chalmers Johnson
%T MITI and The Japanese Miracle

%A David Halberstam
%T The Reckoning

%A Paul Kennedy
%T The Rise and Fall of The Great Powers

%A Don Maloney
%T Japan: It's Not All Raw Fish

%A Michihiro Matsumoto
%T The Unspoken Way

%A Akio Morita
%T Made In Japan

%A Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
%T Illness and Culture in Contemporary Japan

%A Thomas P. Rohlen
%T For Harmony and Strength

%A Thomas P. Rohlen
%T Japan's High Schools

%A Robert J. Smith
%T Japanese Society

%A John Wharton
%T Jobs in Japan

%T The Sun Also Sets
%A Bill Emmott

%A Clyde V. Prestowitz, Jr.
%T Trading Places

%A Karel van\ Wolferen
%T The Enigma of Japanese Power

%A Tadanobu Tsunoda
%T The Japanese Brain - Uniqueness and Universality

%A Sheila K. Johnson
%T The Japanese Through American Eyes

%A Osamu Mizutani
%A Nobuko Mizutani
%T How to Be Polite in Japanese

%A K. Yamamura
%A Y. Yasuba, eds.
%T The Political Economy of Japan

%A Raymond Goldsmith
%T The Financial Development of Japan, 1868-1977

%A Fred Bergsten
%A William Cline
%T The US-Japan Economic Problem

%A Jeffrey Frankel
%T The Yen-Dollar Agreement: Liberalizing Japanese Capital Markets

%A Robert Stern, ed.
%T Trade and Investment Relations Among the U.S., Canada, and Japan

%A Masahiro Aoki, ed.
%T The Economic Analysis of the Japanese Firm

%A Robert Feldman
%T Japanese Financial Markets

%A Nishikawa
%T The Labor Market in Japan

%A Ohkawa
%T Japan and the Developing Economies
%A Ranis

%A Patrick
%A Rosovsky
%T Asia's New Giant

%A Basil Hall Chamberlain
%T Japanese Things

-- 
mike rosenlof                   (206)455-5932
mike@neopath.wa.com     NeoPath, Bellevue Washington USA