Prologue: In the Shadow of 11 September Introduction: The Old Deal - Why Our Muddled Thinking Matters I. Illusion: "On a Cloth Untrue" Japanese Mentalities, American Misreadings 1. Economic Mirage - The Asian Crisis and "Change" 2. Anti-Americanism - "Sayonara" as the Ultimate Blackmail 3. New Old Right - Reactionaries in "Neoconservative" Garb 4. Limping Liberalism - Civil Courage Derided as "Leftist Lite" 5. Pan Asianism - Behind the Bromides of "East-West Bridging" 6. Samurai Ethic - Premature Prognoses of "Individualism" II.

Collusion: "With a Twisted Cue" 7. Special Pleading - Our Rhetorical Trouncings on Trade 8. Ostracism - Sidelining the Heterodox 9. Yen - The Pavlovian Trot for Japan's Academic Largesse 10. Dollars - The Long Retreat of American Philanthropy 11. Organization - The Mutual Understanding Industry 12. People - Of Buffers, Barnacles, and Gatekeepers III. Self Delusion: "And Elliptical Billiard Balls" 13.

Gullible's Travels - Our Four Faulty Vision Things 14. Rollercoaster - The Prewar Matrix of Plus-Minus Images 15. MacArthur Maxim - Democratic Missionizing through the 1950s 16. Reischauer Rubric - Cultural Sensitizing from the 1960s 17. Number-Oneism - Economic Giantizing in the 1970s 18. Brief Awakening - Revisionist Turnaround in the 1980s 19. Dumbing Down - PC and Other Intellectual Follies of the 1990s Conclusion: The Punishment Fits the Crime.