I The Larger View -- -- Intimacy and Distance: On Being a Foreigner in Japan -- Japan: A Description -- Japanese Shapes -- Japanese Rhythms -- Japan: Half a Century of Change -- The Nourishing Void -- The Coming Collapse of Cultural Internationalization -- Interpretations of Japan -- Crossing the Border: The Japanese Example -- II Culture and Style -- -- The Japanese Way of Seeing -- Japan and the Image Industry -- Traditional Japanese Design -- Signs and Symbols -- The Tongue of Fashion -- Japan the Incongruous -- Pink Box: Inside Japanese Sex Clubs -- III On Expression -- -- The Presentational Urge as Theater -- Some Loose Pages on Japanese Narration -- Notes on the Noh -- The Kyogen -- TV: The Presentational Image -- Outcast Samurai Dancer -- Retro Dancing -- IV On Film -- -- A Definition of the Japanese Film -- Some Notes on Life and Death in the Japanese Film -- Buddhism and the Film -- Japanese Women in Society and in Film -- The Japanese Eroduction -- Trains in Japanese Film -- Subtitling Japanese Films -- V The View from Inside -- -- Wasei Eigo: A Beginner's Guide -- Mizushobai: The Art of Pleasing -- Some Thoughts on Car Culture in Japan -- The Window and the Mirror: Some Thoughts on International Culture -- An Alternative Way of Thought -- Foreign Thoughts on Watching the Passing of a Matsuri Procession -- My View -- Acknowledgments.