ED2021-189 (Book)

"The Japan that can Say NO" by Shintaro Ishihara, a Japanese politician (leader of the right-wing Japan Restoration Party) and former Governor of Tokyo (1999-2012). At the time of the writing, he was the Minister of Transport. This 1990 edition includes Ishihara and his colleagues' views on Japanese-United States relations. In summary, they critiqued practices of the US and called for Japan to act more independently. Many English-translated versions in the US omit or edit the essays of the original Japanese version.