Leaving Japan: Observations on a Dysfunctional U.S.-Japan by Mike Millard

By Mike Millard

A critique of America's mistaken Asia coverage that centres on US-Japan family yet harkens again to a similar disastrous perspectives that drew the United States into Vietnam. The process is a story circulation of brief vignettes woven into longer chapters; the most strands are own reflections and interviews.

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