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Article: JAPAN'S TURN AT BAT A BEST-SELLING TOKYO AUTHOR'S MESSAGE: BUG OFF, AMERICA
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 18, 1990
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TOKYO - Shintaro Ishihara -- author, bon vivant, brash
politician and the best-known of Japan's small but swelling corps
of America-bashers -- has come out with a bare-knuckled sequel to
his book "The Japan That Can Say No."
The new volume, which bears the rather uninspired title
"Nevertheless, Japan Can Still Say No," carries a blunt message:
Bug off, America, it is Japan's turn at bat.
Only a few weeks after its release, the collection of
vitriolic essays by Ishihara and two well-known Japanese scholars
has become the hottest-selling book in a nation that normally
recoils in horror from bluntness or public contrariness of any sort.
Ishihara portrays the United States as a ...