Edwin O. Reischauer

Former diplomat and scholar Edwin Reischauer points out solutions to global problems supercede local and national interests, and that a new way of thinking is needed to look internationally.

The author "analyzes the failures of our foreign policy in Asia and makes fundamental proposals for its revision to avoid other Vietnams."

Betrayed by his first wife, Simon Grimshaw won't marry again. But sultry nights in Singapore can be lonely--nothing a beautiful English mistress wouldn't fix! Bethan Conway answers an advert to become a wife, believing it will help her secret search for her missing brother. But Simon isn't the ugly old man she was expecting. He's a hot-blooded bachelor who wants a woman in his bed--a position Bethan's more and more tempted to fill!

A series of articles originally published in Asahi shimbun, 1971. First published in Japanese as Nihon to Amerika. The English version is based on Ken'ichi Otsuka's translation for the Asahi Evening News, Tokyo.

History of China, Japan and Korea from early times to the first half of the 19th century.