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Before it came to that, however, a more radical form of nativism had its day. The 1930s and 1940s were not just a time of incessant warfare but, especially the early 1940s, also of cultural purification. Even the eminent writer Tanizaki Junichiro argued in those years of intense nationalism that foreign loan words, mostly from Chinese, should be purged from the Japanese language. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, such popular American cultural products as baseball and Hollywood movies were forbidden. This policy was not designed to impress foreign views of Japan, but was in line with official propaganda, touted...
...judgment on the unrighteous, but later works like Silence and The Samurai are superb accounts of East failing to meet West. Because of his Christian preoccupations, Endo has become one of Japan's best-known writers overseas. The most underrated of the great Japanese modernists in the West is Junichiro Tanizaki, whose portrait of a prewar Osaka family, The Makioka Sisters, is one of the landmarks of 20th century literature. He is undervalued in the West, I think, in part because his work, which stretches over half a century, is not easy to characterize, ranging as it does from fantasy...
...Junichiro Koizumi is a career politician and a third-generation LDP man, the grandson of a former head of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and a former minister of Health and Welfare under the man he beat out in this election, Ryutaro Hashimoto. Yet Koizumi ran for prime minister in 1995 without support from the party faithful. He has wavy hair, fiery rhetoric, an ex-wife - not common in Japanese politics - and what seems to be a genuine passion for just the kind of free-market, tough-medicine reforms that Japan desperately needs after ten years in the economic...
...Junichiro Koizumi is not squeamish about change. He's been pushing for the same reforms since the mid-'90s, and has been around the government long enough to know where the medicine has to go and who has to swallow it. The stomachs of the rest of the government - and the voters, who loved Koizumi for what he's against but may not feel the same about what he's for - are quite another matter...
...Junichiro Koizumi is set to be Japan's next prime minister after shaking up the creaky but formidable Liberal Democratic party machinery with what in Japan passes for a populist revolt. The 59-year-old with tousled hair and a fondness for rock music promises to revamp the LDP, pack his cabinet with fresh faces, force some bitter medicine on Japan's ailing banks and - if necessary - send Japan into recessionary shock in order to save...