| Introduction: Honda Katsuichi and Political and Intellectual Life in Postwar Japan | 9 |
| I | Against Amnesia and Complacency: Japanese War Responsibility | |
| The Fifteen Years' War us a War of Invasion | 47 |
| Eradicating the Memory of the Nanjing Massacre | 58 |
| Against the Logic of Invaders | 62 |
| On Platoon | 67 |
| The Blindness of Japanese Peace Movements: Forgetting Japan's Aggression | 69 |
| The Burden of Being Japanese | 75 |
| II | Racism and Neocolonialism in Contemporary Japan | |
| Racist Country, Japan | 99 |
| Black Students in Japan | 101 |
| The Situation of the Ainu People | 105 |
| The Last Appeal of the Ainu People | |
| The Appeal of the Ainu People: An Open Letter to the Prime Minister | 112 |
| The "Export" of Women from the Philippines | 115 |
| III | The Culture of Conformity and the Impoverished Intellectuals | |
| A Theory of Tadpole Society | 129 |
| Foreign Embassies in Japan | 132 |
| Why Can't We Squat? | 134 |
| How to Dress at a Restaurant | 138 |
| The Tamed Japanese: The Achievement of the Ministry of Education | 140 |
| The Destruction of Elementary Education | 144 |
| Standardized Education | 147 |
| Why Do Novelists Become Corrupt? | 150 |
| Who Is Responsible for the Attempted Murder of Mayor Motojima? | 158 |
| The Failures of the International PEN Congress | 165 |
| IV | The Archipelago of Ecological Disasters | |
| Disfigured Tadpoles | 171 |
| Vanishing Ptarmigan | 175 |
| Why Resorts? | 178 |
| "Development" as Invasion | 180 |
| Why Dolphins? | 183 |
| V | The Politics of Single-Party Dictatorship | |
| Japanese "Democracy": The Oldest Single-Party Dictatorship | 195 |
| Prime Minister Nakasone as Nazisone | 201 |
| Is Prostitution a Women's Problem? | 206 |
| Anti-Internationalization: Internal and External Versions | 211 |
| Japan's Misfortune in Having Miyazawa as Prime Minister | 215 |
| Afterword: A Manifesto for Independent Journalism | 219 |
Format: Paperback, 320 pages
