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The Call of Japan

The Call of Japan

A Continuing Story-1950 to the Present Day

  • Author: Brinckmann, Hans
  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781912961153
  • Place of publication:  Amsterdam , Netherlands
  • Year of digital publication: 2020
  • Month: June
  • Pages: 320
  • Language: English
Part personal memoir, part professional flashback, part socio-cultural commentary, The Call of Japan chronicles the author’s experiences during his 40 years of living in Japan, from 1950 to 1974 as a ‘reluctant banker’, and from 2003 to the present as a writer. The Call of Japan comments extensively on the country’s economic, political and cultural realities during the crucial early years of post-war reconstruction as well as during more recent times.
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • The Wooing (1950–1958)
    • 1950
      • 1. Now You Love It
      • 2. Should We Trust Our First Impressions?
      • 3. The Emperor and the General
      • 4. The old Tokaido Line to Osaka
      • 5. Of Hot Baths and Fragrant Tea
      • 6. The Halfway-up Bank
      • 7. A Rhythmic Neighbourhood and the Broken White Soldiers
      • 8. The Midnight Whistle
    • 1951
      • 9. Work, Leisure, Home Life
      • 10.The Floating World
      • 11. Through a Paper Screen Darkly
    • 1952
      • 12. Punishment for Going Missing
    • 1953
      • 13. A Well-Oiled Little Cogwheel
      • 14. Those Restless Bones
    • 1954
      • 15. Joining the Kanto-mon
      • 16. Upstairs/Downstairs in the Japanese Economy
      • 17. A Tale of Two Cultures
    • 1955
      • 18. How to Fish and How to Say Goodbye
    • 1956
      • 19. Back in Holland
      • 20. A Fresh Start: Osaka
    • 1957
      • 21. The Teachings of IJsbrand
      • 22. Kyoto and the Magatama Attitude
      • 23. Another Way of Seeing
      • 24. More Kyoto Adventures
    • 1958
      • 25. Osaka Realities
      • 26. Escapes and Escapades
      • 27. Casting the Die
  • Part II
  • The Winning (1959–1966)
    • 1959
      • 1. Dark Rumblings Beneath a Pristine New Year
      • 2. An Orderly Wedding – and a Honeymoon of Sorts
      • 3. A Witch in the House
      • 4. Shifting Sands
    • 1960
      • 5. A Narrow Escape
      • 6. Political Turmoil in Tokyo – and an ‘Economic’Response
    • 1961
      • 7. ‘Getting to Know You…’ or What Went on in the Hot-springs
    • 1962
      • 8. Crisis Management (by the Seat of the Pants)
      • 9. The Foul Smell of Success, and the Need for Faith
      • 10. Capital Living
    • 1963
      • 11. The Looming Olympics …and the Overflowing Cup
      • 12. The Seamy Side: Defeating the Yakuza
    • 1964
      • 13. Nothing Changes, Except Everything Else
      • 14. ‘See No Evil
    • 1965
      • 15. A Superior Society?
      • 16. Chameleon Man
    • 1966
      • 17. A Thoroughly Ordinary Year
  • Part III
  • The Waning (1967–1974)
    • 1967
      • 1. Beyond the Social Whirl
      • 2. Pornographic Chic
      • 3. The Seven Generations Curse: A Case History
      • 4. Falling Scales
    • 1968
      • 5. A Great and Alien Land
      • 6. Kafka’s Ape and a Tower in the Air
    • 1969
      • 7. Amae or How to Have it Both Ways
    • 1970
      • 8. The Growing Conflict
      • 9. Business as Usual
      • 10. A Beautiful Death?
    • 1971
      • 11. ‘Go Placidly Among the Noise and Haste
    • 1972
      • 12. Nixon in China and the Tanaka Phenomenon
    • 1973
      • 13. The Art of Evasion
      • 14. Decision Time
      • 15. The Good and the Bad: An Assessment (1973)
      • 16. An Unlikely Story
    • 1974
      • 17. Creeping Doubts
      • 18. Trailing Roots
  • Part IV
  • The View from Abroad (1974–2002)
    • 1. Preamble
    • 1974
      • 2. Ageing Albion
    • 1975
      • 3. Pessimistic Nippon
    • 1976
      • 4. Back to Banking – in Curaçao
    • 1977
      • 5. A Business Trip to Japan – and Tōfukuji Revisited
    • 1978
      • 6. Japan Again – and Remembering the Departed
    • 1979
      • 7. The Final Months in Curaçao – and The Move to Holland
    • 1981
      • 8. Japan’s Lengthening Reach – and a New Start for Me
    • 1982
      • 9. AMRO ’s New York Branch Opened – but Japan Still a Factor
    • 1983
      • 10. Walking the Bride Down the Aisle
    • 1984
      • 11. Pulled Between Two Cities
    • 1985
      • 12. U.S. Banks Upset by Japan’s Market Aggression
      • 13. Last rites for a Lady
    • 1986
      • 14. An AMRO Tokyo Conference – and Special “Service” at a Restaurant
      • 15. A Memorial Service in Nagoya
    • 1988
      • 16. Goodbye to Banking – and Japan’s Bubble Economy
    • 1989
      • 17. T he End of the Showa Era – and The Fall of the Wall
    • 1990–1998
      • 18. The Restless Years
    • 1999–2003
      • 19. In London – but Focusing on Japan
  • Part V
  • Back on Familiar Soil (2003 to the Present)
    • Preamble
    • 1. The Difference 70 years make
    • 2. Japan’s Fundamental Problems and Vulnerabilities
      • (a) Scarcity of Natural Resources
      • (b) Frequency of Earthquakes and other Calamities
      • (c) Declining Population
      • (d) Troubled Relations with its Neighbours
      • (e) Lack of Decisiveness in Addressing Fundamental Problems
    • 3. My late Wife’s Unique Personality
    • 4. An Overview of my Writings and other Activities
      • (a) My Writings
      • (b) Photography
    • 5. What We Can Learn from Japan
      • Afterword
  • Glossary
  • Index
  • Back Cover

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