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...near total rejection of psychoanalysis? After all, Freud's works had been translated into Japanese by 1930, and after World War II many Japanese medical students and doctors went to the U.S. to study psychoanalysis. Tokyo Analyst Soichi Hakozaki offers one answer: the "softened ego" of the Japanese, produced by a clannish and group-oriented culture that ignores the individualism that is essential to the success of analytic techniques...
...salute Tokyo Psychiatrist Soichi Hakozaki and his lefty liberation crusade. A year ago, I found out that all my left-handed guitar students suffered from severe rhythm problems and a general inability to improvise. A specially strung guitar designed to be strummed with the left hand and fretted with the right solved the problem. Those who achieved skill, however, found that professional-quality lefthanded instruments were very hard to obtain. Other lefthanders insisted from the start that they were as good as any righthander and did not want any special favors. The result was that they were unable to develop...
Intrigued by the problems of his young patient, Psychiatrist Hakozaki began examining the plight of Japan's 5,000,000 southpaws. He soon discovered that there were many other left-handed children who were developing minor neuroses as a result of being forced to use their right hands...
Uphill Battle. Over the past five years, Hakozaki, who is righthanded himself, has become Japan's leading spokesman for lefty liberation. In 1968 he wrote a bestselling attack on the old prejudices called Warnings Against Rightist Culture. Three years ago, he founded the Japan Lefthanders League to encourage lefthanders to come out of the closet. Today the league's 1,500 members receive a monthly bulletin to boost their self-esteem and remind them of such famous lefties as Michelangelo and Harry Truman...
Throughout Japan, thousands of supporters have written to Hakozaki offering thanks and encouragement. Bolstered by the response, Hakozaki is carrying the fight to new fronts as well. He has persuaded several Tokyo department stores to stock specially designed scissors, golf clubs and tools for lefthanders. Now at work on a second book on the subject, Hakozaki is also designing a special manual for the art of brush writing, which poses particular problems for lefthanded schoolchildren. Though Hakozaki sees a "long uphill battle" ahead for his movement, there are indications that the prejudice against lefthanders is beginning to ease. One sign...