The Japanese look within themselves to find the causes of the Pacific War (1937-45). They have discovered an inner-directed nationalism that exalts conformity and ethnicity. Impressed with the high-mindedness of the Americans, who placed reform over rehabilitation in their occupation of Japan, determined not to go to war again, the Japanese have submerged their nationalism within a pro-Americanism. That state of affairs will continue so long as America seeks peace, looks outward, honors diversity, and lives up to its ideals.
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1. NHK seron choosa sho, ed., Nihon to Amerika jin [Japanese and Americans] (Tokyo: Nihon hoosoo shuppan kyookai, 1982), pp. 128-145.
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2. Tookei suuri kenkyusho, Dai Yon Nihonjin no Kokuminsei [The fourth study of Japanese character] (Tokyo: Idemitsu shoten, 1982), pp. 144-152.
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3. Ibid.
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4. Ibid.
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5. The definition of the Russian threat is taken in part from Nisihira Sigeki, Seron Choosa ni yoru Dooji Dai Shi [A contemporary history based on public opinion research](Tokyo: Bureen shuppan kai, 1987), pp. 256-59. Other parts of the present article depend on other parts of this book and a series of articles that Professor Nisihira wrote during the late 1970s and early 1980s for Jiyuu magazine. Professor Nisihira and I are in the final stages of a manuscript that uses the data in these writings to depict Japan's sense of the world.
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6. Koosaka Masataka, Bunmei Ga Suiboo Suru Toki [The decay of civilization] (Tokyo: Shincho sensho, 1981), pp. 200-201.
